- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction (note)
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Foreword / by Gary Hoover -- Origins -- Working on the railroad -- It's hard to stop a train -- The Smoky City -- Straight air brakes -- Automatic air brakes -- What's a Wilmerding? -- Two trains, one track -- Solitude -- Gas pains -- More energy -- AC or DC -- Assembling the pieces -- The greatest inventor who ever lived -- The greatest experimenter who ever lived -- Bankers always win -- Dying for electricity -- The worst of times -- The White City -- Over a barrel at Niagara -- New lands to conquer -- Rotary redux -- Trolleys and trains -- Panic! -- Homes and family -- Retirement, honors, and death -- Memorials -- The next century.
- ISBN
- 9781476644141 (electronic bk.)
- 1476644144 (electronic bk.)
- OCLC
- ebd1552263551
- Author
Huber, William R., 1941- author.
- Title
George Westinghouse : powering the world / William R. Huber ; foreword by Gary Hoover.
- Publisher
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2022]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Note
Description based on print version record.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Hoover, Gary, 1951- writer of foreword.
EBSCOhost
- Other Form:
Original 9781476686929 1476686920 (DLC) 2021060942