Scarce 1920 WESTINGHOUSE Light & Power Plant TIN LITHO EMBOSSED ADVERTISING SIGN

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Scarce 1920 WESTINGHOUSE Light & Power Plant TIN LITHO EMBOSSED ADVERTISING SIGN
Bold colors, no fade in Orange Black and cream colors
Tin Litho embossed sign measuring a generous 23" x 22"
sign #197 marking at lower left hand corner
L. E. HULL of MADISON CONNECTICUT dealer as noted on the sign
multi color tin lithography
original 6 small grommet holes from the factory in place
very clean piece and quite scarce
1st time on market and very scarce, less than 10 known
Westinghouse Electric was founded by
George Westinghouse
in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
, on January 8, 1886
. T
he firm became active in developing
electric
infrastructure throughout the United States. The company's largest factories were located in
East Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
, and Lester, Pennsylvania and in Hamilton, Ontario, where they made
turbines
, generators, motors, and switch gear for generation, transmission, and use of electricity. In addition to George Westinghouse, early engineers working for the company included
Frank Conrad
,
Benjamin Garver Lamme
,
Bertha Lamme
(America’s first woman mechanical engineer),
Oliver B. Shallenberger
,
William Stanley
,
Nikola Tesla
,
Stephen Timoshenko
and
Vladimir Zworykin
.
Early on, Westinghouse was a rival to
Thomas Edison
's electric company. In 1892, Edison was merged with Westinghouse's chief AC rival, the
Thomson-Houston Electric Company
, making an even bigger competitor,
General Electric
. Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company changed its name to
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
in 1945.
Westinghouse purchased
CBS Inc.
in 1995, for .4 billion. Westinghouse Electric Corporation changed its name to and became
CBS Corporation
in 1997. Also in 1997, the Power Generation Business Unit, headquartered in
Orlando, Florida
, was sold to
Siemens AG
, of Germany.  A year later, CBS sold all of its commercial nuclear power businesses to
British Nuclear Fuels Limited
(BNFL). In connection with that sale, certain rights to use the Westinghouse trademarks were granted to the newly formed BNFL subsidiary,
Westinghouse Electric Company
.
[7]
That company was sold to
Toshiba
in 2006.
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