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in my opinion George Westinghouse was a captain of industry, because he was a servant leader /inventor. His workers were treated better than almost any other industrial employer of that era.
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He was never a strike, he paid better than the other industrialists and he treated his workers with respect in the 1800s
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Westinghouse spent most of his money paying his employers, giving them benefits, investing in improvements to railways and the natural gas industry, and upcoming businesses and constructing factories. including : a powerplant that used hydroelectric power from Niagara Falls.(late 1800s)
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He was born oct.6,1846
Born in: Central Bridge, New York
spouse: Marguerite Erskine walker(1867-1914)
He received his first patent for his rotary steam engine in 1865
Buried: Arlington national cemetery, Arlington VA -
he founded the Westinghouse air brake company in 1869
after this the rail road safety appliance Act of 1893 made air brakes compulsory on all American trains. -
In Pittsburgh 1881 the union switch and signal company was founded
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In a span of just 10 years, the value the value of the company had increased. Westinghouse company had grown to employ over 50,000 workers.