Categories: Legacy
In the 19th century, most trains had cars with individuals braking systems. The brakeman was responsible for getting to each car – sometimes by walking atop the moving train – to apply the brakes manually. Tracks weren’t level. Cold and wet weather posed slip-and-fall hazards. Common injuries ranged from frostbite and hypothermia to lost fingers or, even worse, death beneath the train’s wheels.
Categories: Legacy
It was 70 years ago this month that the UK government announced that the now Westinghouse Springfields site, previously a war-time munitions factory, would become the country’s nuclear fuel manufacturing facility. These were exciting times – the nuclear industry was in its infancy and at the forefront of technology – and Springfields was involved right from the very beginning.
Categories: General Topics
Westinghouse's legacy of innovation has been thriving for more than 40 years at the Hot Cell Facility at its newly renovated Churchill Laboratories in Churchill, Pa. (USA).
Categories: General Topics
By Jeff Benjamin, Westinghouse Electric Company Senior Vice President New Plants & Major Projects
Categories: General Topics
U.K. National Apprenticeship Week, taking place March 14 – 18, 2016, celebrates apprenticeships and the positive impact that they have on individuals, businesses and the wider economy in the U.K.
