What is Westinghouse Electric Corporation?
The '''Westinghouse Electric Corporation'''(just known as Westinghouse with it's W in it's logo) was an [[United States|American]] [[manufacturing]] company. It was founded on January 8, 1886, as '''Westinghouse Electric Company'''. Later it was renamed the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. They helped to bring [[electricity]] to [[home]]s and [[business]]es across the [[United States]]. Westinghouse was a [[Diversification (marketing strategy)|diversified]] company. It was involved in a wide variety of [[Product (business)|products]] and [[service (economics)|services]]. The company had a number of firsts. It produced the first [[jet engine]] in the United States and the first [[nuclear power plant]]. It also developed the first U.S. [[radar|radar station]] (used at [[Pearl Harbor]]).<ref name=Moran225.6>Richard Moran, ''Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair'' (New York: Vintage Books, 2003), pp. 225–26</ref> In the late 1980s a number of bad [[Choice|business decisions]] caused the company to [[Failure|decline]].<ref name=Moran225.6/> After selling off most of its manufacturing divisions, Westinghouse Electric took the name of one of its [[subsidiary|subsidiaries]], CBS,<ref>B. Rajesh Kumar, ''Mega Mergers and Acquisitions: Case Studies from Key Industries'' (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), p. 148</ref> which it bought in 1995. == References == {{reflist}} {{US-stub}} [[Category:1886 establishments in the United States]] [[Category:1997 disestablishments in the United States]] [[Category:Companies based in Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Columbia Broadcasting System]] [[Category:Viacom]] [[Category:Defunct companies of the United States]] [[Category:Manufacturing companies of the United States]]