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in 1886, Westinghouse Electric Company began with a workforce of 200 men in a small plant in Pittsburgh. The company was founded to build electrical equipment for a new type of distribution system that founder and engineer George Westinghouse modeled after the distribution system for natural gas.

With inventors such as William Stanley and Nikola Tesla as employees, Westinghouse produced many new types of commercial and industrial equipment for the generation, transmission, and application of electricity. Their early equipment included the first transformer in the U.S., generating stations, meters, motors, and transmission lines.

📸 A view of Wilmerding and the Westinghouse Air Brake Company plant with snow on the ground, c. 1900. Westinghouse Electric Corporation Photographs, Detre Library & Archives at the Heinz History Center.

: This image offers a look back at Pittsburgh's transit operations in 1951. This particular photo also features the Diamond Market, which was demolished a decade later in 1961.

Interested in reading more about the Diamond Market? Check out the Heinz History Center's writeup on the building that once symbolized “old Pittsburgh": https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/blog/western-pennsylvania-history-the-rise-and-fall-of-pittsburghs-diamond-market/

In Marblehead, OH. And off to rickenbacker. Last leg of flight