Where the Natural Gas Industry Started

2nd Century to present at East Liberty Valley Historical Society

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – February 20, 2019 Pirates, Presbyterians and Westinghouse are topics of lecture series

Westinghouse Park: A Bird’s Eye View Through Time

Today’s Westinghouse Park is situated in Pittsburgh’s East End area, in the neighborhood of Point Breeze North and adjacent to Homewood. Here’s how the park looked from above in 2018. At 10.2 acres, Westinghouse Park covers an entire city block, bounded on the north (top) by the rail line/busway, Thomas Boulevard on the south (bottom),

Westinghouse: A Giant among Inventors

Ask the man on the street who he should thank for the electricity that lights his way and he’s likely to say “Thomas Edison.” But the name Westinghouse, to most laymen, conjures up little more than images of 1950’s fridges and toasters. But George Westinghouse was a giant among inventors, and if there’s any one person

A Concise History of George Westinghouse

George Westinghouse: The Mystery Our history pages are thick with Mellons, but it was Westinghouse who changed the course of the country by WILLIAM S. DIETRICH II.  PROFILES   Pittsburgh Quarterly – 2006 SPRING/​SUMMER It was a dreary fall day when, on a friend’s suggestion, I visited the George Westinghouse Museum in Wilmerding. It is housed inside the former Westinghouse