New Frontiers: An Epic of Electrified America circa 1932 Westinghouse Electric & Mfg Co
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Overview of all those great things Westinghouse is doing with electricity in the early 1930s (the Western Electric Wide Range sound system used for this film debuted in theaters in 1931, and the SS Manhattan, mentioned in the film, was launched in December 1931.)
Public domain film from the Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
The Westinghouse Electric Corporation was an American manufacturing company. It was founded on January 8, 1886, as Westinghouse Electric Company and later renamed Westinghouse Electric Corporation by George Westinghouse. George Westinghouse had previously founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company. The company purchased CBS in 1995 and became CBS Corporation in 1997.
In 1998, CBS established a brand licensing subsidiary Westinghouse Licensing Corporation (Westinghouse Electric Corporation). A year later, CBS sold all of its nuclear power businesses to British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL). Soon after, BNFL gained license rights on the Westinghouse trademarks and they used those to reorganize their acquired assets as Westinghouse Electric Company. That company was sold to Toshiba in 2007…
History
Westinghouse Electric was founded by George Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1886. The firm became active in helping to bring electricity throughout the United States. The company’s largest factories were located in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where they made turbines and coils for electricity. In addition to George Westinghouse, engineers working for the company included William Stanley, Nikola Tesla, Vladimir Zworykin, Oliver B. Shallenberger, Stephen Timoshenko, Benjamin Garver Lamme and his sister Bertha Lamme. The company was historically the rival to General Electric, which was founded by George Westinghouse’s arch-rival Thomas Edison (see War of the Currents).
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The company pioneered long-distance power transmission and high-voltage alternating-current transmission, unveiling the technology for lighting in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
The company is also known for its time capsule contributions during the 1939 New York World’s Fair and 1964 New York World’s Fair. They also participated in the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904. They sponsored the Westinghouse Auditorium at the fair, where they showed films documenting Westinghouse products and company plants.
Westinghouse produced the first operational American turbojet, but fumbled on the disastrous J40 project. It not only severely hampered a generation of U.S. Navy jets when the project had to be abandoned, but led to leaving the aircraft engine business in the 1950s…
