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George Westinghouse
(6 Oct 1846 - 12 Mar 1914)
American engineer, inventor and industrialist.
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Science Quotes by George Westinghouse (4 quotes)
If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.
— George Westinghouse
In Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr., George Westinghouse: Gentle Genius (2007), 237.
The alternating current will kill people, of course. So will gunpowder, and dynamite, and whisky, and lots of other things; but we have a system whereby the deadly electricity of the alternating current can do no harm unless a man is fool enough to swallow a whole dynamo.
— George Westinghouse
(1884). As quoted in Francis Ellington Leupp, George Westinghouse: His Life and Achievements (1918), 149.
They could have done it better with an axe.
— George Westinghouse
(1890) On the first use of the electric chair—the horrendously botched execution of William Kemmler, condemned murderer. As quoted in 'Warden Durston's Record: The Man Who Botched the Kemmler Execution', New York Times (18 Aug 1890), 5.
[Pavel Yablochkov’s electric lamp is] the starting point for the creation of a new branch of industry.
— George Westinghouse
In 'Opasnosti elektricheskogo osveshcheniia', Elektrichestvo 4 (1890): 68. 2. As quoted in Loren Graham, Lonely Ideas: Can Russia Compete? (2013), 176.
Quotes by others about George Westinghouse (1)
Just as certain as death, Westinghouse will kill a customer within six months after he puts in a [alternating current] system of any size.
See also:
- 6 Oct - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Westinghouse's birth.
- George Westinghouse - First American AC power plant
- A Life of George Westinghouse, by Henry G. Prout. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
