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Westinghouse Air Brake Company
| Name | Westinghouse Air Brake Company |
| Ortssitz | Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
| Straße | Liberty Street |
| Art des Unternehmens | Bremsenfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Lage von Verwaltung und Werk: Liberty Street zwischen 24th und 25th Streets. Auch als "The Westinghouse Air Brake Co." (mit vorangestelltem Artikel). Ab 1889 in Wilmerding (s.d.), aber in einer Anzeige von 1893 noch in Pittsburgh genannt. |
| Quellenangaben | [Industries of Pittsburgh (1879) 132] [Poor's Manual of Railroads 26 (1893) Anzeige] |
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| Eisenbahn-Druckluftbremsen |
1879 |
[Industries of Pittsburgh (1879) 132] |
1889 |
nach Wilmerding |
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Beschreibung |
Verwendung |
| 1879 |
Dampfmaschinen |
2 |
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unbekannt |
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Arbeiter |
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männl. |
weibl. |
Kommentar |
| 1879 |
150 |
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Lohnzahlung $84.000 im Jahr |
Zeit = 1: Zeitpunkt unbekannt
| ZEIT | 1879 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | It is tolerably safe to say that no one special branch of our manufacturing industries has disseminated more widely a knowledge of Pittsburgh and its characteristics, than the Westinghouse Air Brake Co. Certainly none more entitled to copious mention in any work professing to display in its proper light, the resources, advantages and development of the Iron City. Based upon the masterly invention of George Westinghonse, Jr., the manufacture of the Automatic Air Brake was commenced by the patentee and Ralph Bagaley, Esq., nearly ten years ago, creating an absolute revolution in the matter of handling railroad trains, greatly increasing the safety of travel, and reducing running expenses, with many other striking advantages. The importance and novelty of this unique appliance, attracted at once universil attention resulting in the formation of an incorporated Joint Stock Company, with a capital of 600.000 paid in, for the purpose of a more extensive manufacture of the Air Brake. Of this Association, Geo. Westinghouse, Jr. was elected President, Ralph Bagaley Secretary and Treasurer, and T. W. Welsh Superintendent, and under the management of these gentlemen to the present time the company has attained an almost unparallelod degree of prosperity, extending its operations not only throughout the entire United States and Canada, but introducing its inventions into Mexico, Cuba, South America, England, France, Germany, Russia, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, and in fact in almost every country in the world where railroads are in process of construction, or have become a necessity. The works of the corporation are unusually complete in every mechanical detail, they occupy an area 100x264 feet, containing two engines and boilers aggregating ninety horse power, and line machinery especially invented or designed for the work performed. One hundred and fifty skilled artizaus are constantly employed, occasioning an annual disbursement to this source alone of 84.000. Besides the construction of the original Automatic Air Brake, other devices involving much the same principle have been invented by Mr. Westinghouse, covering Train Brakes, Freight Brakes, Westinghouse and Smith Vacuum Brakes and Locomotive Driver Brakes, all of which are manufactured by the company, protected by numerous patents in this country and abroad. Geo. Westinghouse, Jr. is a native of Schenectady, N.Y., and is still a young man. He acquired his knowledge of mechanics in the Agricultural Implement Works of his father in his native city, but removed to this city in 1868, where after combatting numerous discouragements he finally established the foundations of a signal success.
Mr. Bagaley is a native of Pittsburgh, his father Wm. Bagaley, Esq., was one of the most talented business men this city ever produced; methodical, enterprising and comprehensive in character, he was twenty-live years ago a representative man, and did as much perhaps as any one, in advancing the prosperity of this community. Mr. Ralph Bagaley from the inception of his business career has been constantly engrossed in the manufacture of machinery in
some of its many branches. As one of the projectors and officers of the Westinghouse Co., as well as proprietor of the
Pittsburgh Evening Telegraph, he is widely known, and this in connection with various interests in financial and civic institutions has given him an influence always justly exercised and well deserved. With an annual revenue averaging half a million dollars, and a practical usefulness almost philanthropic, it is not a matter of surprise that the
Westinghouse Air Brake Co. occupies a place in the Industries of Pittsburgh as honorable as it is well merited. |
| QUELLE | [Industries of Pittsburgh (1879) 132] |
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