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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.