George Westinghouse: Gentle Genius

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Algora Publishing, 2007 - Počet stran: 259
George Westinghouse''s story is rich in drama and in breadth, a story of power, city building, and applying the Golden Rule in business. His biography intersects with those of many great personalities of the Gilded Age, such as J.P Morgan, Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Carnegie, the Mellon Family, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Nikola Tesla. One of the most successful industrialists in America, George Westinghouse was a wizard who took a much different approach than Thomas Edison. Westinghouse became a manager of innovation. He was not only an inventor in his own right, but the orchestra leader of a symphony of ideas. Westinghouse developed the corporate model of invention and research. His innovations allowed Westinghouse to take the lead in electrical distribution. While Edison electrified New York City, the nation turned in favor of the AC current system of Westinghouse. He was a pioneer in pension plans and in planned communities for workers. His natural gas distribution system did more than Carnegie''s capital to make Pittsburgh the Steel City. The panic of 1907 changed Westinghouse. It took the energy out of the industrial lion and resulted in a personal depression, which led to his death in1914. Samuel Gompers said that, OC if industry had been run by men like Westinghouse, there would have been no need for unions.OCO Employees loved the gentle genius who worried about them routinely. Over 55,000 employees voluntarily collected money for a memorial to Westinghouse in 1955; this memorial would have been the one he cherished the most."
 

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Introduction
1
Chapter 1 The Panic of 1907
7
Chapter 2 In Search of Character
23
Chapter 3 Railroad Inventor
33
Chapter 4 Pittsburgh Industrialist
47
Chapter 5 Victorian Engineer
61
Chapter 6 American and International Industrialist
77
Chapter 7 A New Interest
89
Chapter 11 Wilmerding Americas Company Town
147
Chapter 12 Niagaras White Coal
161
Chapter 13 East Pittsburgh
177
Chapter 14 Duopoly
189
Chapter 15 Industrial Diplomat
199
Chapter 16 The Old Genius and His Employees
213
Chapter 17 His Last Chapter
227
Capitalism with a Heart A Futuristic Vision
237

Chapter 8 The War of the Currents
105
Chapter 9 Westinghouse and the Tesla System
125
Chapter 10 Westinghouse Goes to the Fair
135
Bibliography
247
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