Westinghouse Electric Corporation

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{{Infobox Defunct Company| company_name = Westinghouse Electric Corporation| company_logo =
Westinghouse logo (designed by Paul Rand)] (after 1997 renaming to CBS Corporation (1997))| foundation = as Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company (1886) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania| location = [Monroeville, PA, etc. | key_people = [George Westinghouse, Founder] in 1886 as Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company. The company purchased CBS in 1995 and was renamed CBS Corporation in 1997.

George Westinghouse had previously founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company. Westinghouse Electric received the rights for the first patent for alternating current transmission from Nikola Tesla and unveiled the technology for lighting in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The company pioneered long-distance power transmission and high-voltage transmission. In addition to George Westinghouse, engineers working for the company include William Stanley (physicist), Nikola Tesla and Oliver Schallenberger. It was historically the rival to General Electric. Timeline of company evolution

1889 - renames itself the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
1890s

1891 - build world's first commercial AC system (Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant)
1893 - supplies electric lights and power for Chicago World Fair
1895 - installs hydropower AC generators at Niagara Falls which supplied power to Buffalo, NY
1899 - founds British Westinghouse

1900s

1901 - acquires Bryant Electric Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut, which continues operation as a subsidiary
1909 - ousts George Westinghouse as chairman during bankruptcy reorganization

1910s

1914 - acquires Copeman Electric Stove Company in Flint, Michigan from Lloyd Groff Copeman, moves it to Mansfield, Ohio and enters the home appliance market (sold in 1974 to White Consolidated Industries)
1915 - New England Westinghouse Company opens for business. First product: Mosin-Nagant rifles for the Czar's army.
1916 - share of British Westinghouse purchased by a British holding company, which becomes Metropolitan-Vickers

1920s - enters the broadcasting industry, with stations like KDKA AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1930s - enters the nuclear age with an industrial Particle accelerator.

1934 - opens its Home of Tomorrow in Mansfield, Ohio, to demonstrate Westinghouse home appliances
1935 - completes longest continuous electric steel annealing furnace in the world at Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan

1930s - funds invention of the magnetohydrodynamic generator

1940s - enters aviation with airborne radar (defense electronics sold 1996), jet engine propulsion, and ground based airport lighting.

1945 - renames itself the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, and makes first automatic elevator.

1950s - enters consumer finance with Westinghouse Credit Corporation
1960s - acquires ThermoKing, begins automated mass transit (sold 1988); adopts "You Can Be Sure If It's Westinghouse" as advertising slogan for home appliances
1970s - sells well-known home appliance division to White Consolidated Industries which becomes White-Westinghouse
1979 - sells off all Oil Refineries and closes other civic projects in Iran after the Iranian Revolution.
1980s - acquires cable television operator TelePrompter (sold 1985) and robot maker Unimation; sells street light division to Cooper Lighting, elevator/escalator division to Schindler Group, and lamp division to Philips.

1988 - closes the East Pittsburgh plant, which had once been the primary Westinghouse manufacturing facility.
1989 - sells watthour meter division at Raleigh, North Carolina to Asea Brown Boveri Group.

1990s

1994 - sells electric power distribution and control business unit to Eaton Corporation for $1 billion
1995 - buys CBS for US$5.4 billion.
1996 - buys Infinity Broadcasting
1996 - sells Westinghouse Electronic Systems defense business to Northrop Grumman for $3 billion, becoming Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems.
1997 - sells most non-broadcast operations; renames itself CBS Corporation
1998 - sells remaining manufacturing asset, its nuclear energy business, to BNFL which sold it to Toshiba in 2006 which still operates it as Westinghouse Electric Company today.
1998 - CBS Corporation creates a new subsidiary called Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1998) to manage the Westinghouse brand.
1999 - sells itself to Viacom (1971-2005)