Silicon Controlled Rectifier Designers' Handbook
Youngwood, PA: Westinghouse Electric Corporation, 1964. Reprint. Paperback. 8vo, spiral bound paperback. Illustrated in b&w. Creasing and denting to covers, tanning to spine. Contents remain clean.
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AC & DC Motor Maintenance
Pittsburgh, PA: Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Paperback. Publication date and edition are not listed. This is a small stapled pamphlet (32mo: 3.5 x 6 inches), Softcover, in Very Good condition, with light shelf and handling wear. There are small, neat, notations in pen to the front and rear end papers. The.....
Records and Documents Relating to the Incorporation and Organization of the Philadelphia Company, Organized May 24, 1884 [George Westinghouse's main solicitor John Dalzell's personal copy with documents signed by John Shoemaker, the Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth); a second copy of the same publication, paginated differently, without signed documents; Annual Report of the Philadelphia Company for 1885-86 together with Records and Documents relating to the Incorporation and Organization of the Philadelphia Compoany...(1886)
Pittsburgh: Myers, Shinkle & Co., 1884-1886. 3 items, all very rare - the Records and Documents turn up zero copies in an OCLC search and as for the Annual Report (its first year), while OCLC cites the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh as having a copy, a look at the actual.....
5 large 1965 screen print posters for Westinghouse RC Club events: Spring Dance at Colonial Manor; Adult Picnic; Men's Stag at the Italian Social Club, Wilmerding; Family Picnic; and Ladies' Stag and Fashion Show at the Holiday House
28 x 22, on Nelson 14-ply showcard board, probably no more than a few produced of each, very good, all have slight wear. From the estate of a Westinghouse researcher with artistic aspirations. RC Club has two standard meanings, a "riding club" -- different from a motorcycle club in that.....
The Westinghouse-Parsons Steam Turbine: A Description, with Suggestions and Instructions for Its Installation, Care and Operation (Instruction book WM 103: April 1910)
Pittsburgh: The Westinghouse Machine Company, 1910. Paperback. Paperback, 1910, octavo, 62pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG with rubbing, soil, and toning to wrap, stapled binding tight, text has some mild soil to endpapers. No DJ.
The Sealed Off Ignitron Mercury Arc Rectifier 200 KW - 250 Volts for Phoenix Electric Company, Sharon, Pennsylvania - Instruction Book 5669-162
East Pittsburgh, PA: Westinghouse, 1944. Paperback. 1944, Softcover, Illustrated instruction book. Some wear to wraps; owner's signature on title page.
Songs to be Sung, Murmered, or Chanted
Westinghouse Electric, ca. 1940. Paperback. ca. 1940 Softcover 8vo. Collection of 47 popular song lyrics published by Westinghouse Electric. With newspaper articles relating to Westinghouse laid in. Very good with light spotting to cover.
19 electrical engineering blueprint diagrams & spec sheets KDKA's radio station at Saxonburg PA
Pittsburgh: Westinghouse Co., West Penn Electric, KDKA, 1930-1931. 19 sheets on blueprint paper, mainly from Westinghouse Electric, documenting some of the engineering issues for the construction of the new radio station for mediumwave and shortwave broadcasts by KDKA-Pittsburgh, often noted as the first real radio station in the world. Sizes.....
The Westinghouse Automatic Brake Catalogue, 1897
Pittsburgh: Westinghouse, 1897. Hardcover. Quarto (12 inches tall), pebbled black leather, very good copy with light general rubbing to edges of binding, half-inch loss to both top and bottom of spine leather, contents very good, many plates, several of which fold out, with 99 pp. of descriptions and plates and.....
Production of War Materiel, Westinghouse Air Brake Company 1940-1945
(Wilmerding?): Westinghouse Air Brake Company, No date, ca. 1946. Hardcover. Probably published the year after the war. Quarto, pebbled black cloth stamped in gilt, 267 pages printed on rectos only, some illustrations. Very good. RARE, no copies listed on OCLC. The company shifted to making bomb bodies and parts, chemical.....
The Westinghouse Automatic Brake Catalogue, 1894
Pittsburgh: Westinghouse Air Brake Company, 1894. Third edition. Hardcover. 1894. Third edition. hardcover, 4to. in orange buckram, with gilt title. 78pp, illustrated, with 4 folding plates, and 3p. supplement laid in. Very good. Finger smudging, soil to boards. Light toning to edges. Internally bright and unmarked. Housed in mylar. RARE.....
Westinghouse Automotive Air Brakes with Metal Shoe Brake Equipment: Instruction Pamphlet No 5057-1
Pittsburgh: Westinghouse air brake Company, 1926. Paperback. 47 pp. Softcover, illustrated + 2 large fold-outs at rear. Very Good copy: wraps show soil, fading, light edgewear. Insides show faint fading, due to age; illustrations and text clean, bright and unmarked.
1974 program for Reception and Dinner of the Westinghouse Board of Directors, Sarah Scaife Gallery, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, October 29
Pittsburgh: 1974. Wraps. 14 x 7 inches, wraps, very good, light rubbing and discoloration to front cover, 16 unnumbered pages, including 6 color plates of some of the Carnegie Museum's paintings. The Scaife Gallery had opened just days earlier, a beautiful building designed by Edward L. Barnes; this dinner featured.....
75th Anniversary of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company
Pittsburgh: Westinghouse Air Brake Co., 1944. First Printing. Hardcover. 10 x 7.5 inches, cloth in dust jacket, very good, light mustiness, jacket is plain tan, unprinted, light wear to edges. 57 pp., illustrated, some in color and some tinted.
Folder of materials on Magnetic Brakes & Machinery 1900s-1940s kept by Westinghouse engineer: parts lists, original photos, brochures, publications
Folder from the estate of a Westinghouse engineer on uses of magnetic equipment in trains: 1) Group of 14 photos, almost all of which have duplicates and triplicates, printed on 8.5 x 11 sheets: contact prints of 4 x 5 negatives on matt finished paper, probably from 1927 as they.....
Bound volume of 13 early 1900s pamphlets on engineering, machines, electrical engineering, mainly Westinghouse Machine Company, East Pittsburg / Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh: Westinghouse and others, 1900s. Hardcover. Clothbound volume of 13 pamphlets on engineering and machinery with the cover titled in gilt "Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company" suggesting that these are the company's own copies of these pamphlets. Riveted with two thick brass 'staples' there are the following pamphlets: 1) Green's.....
The Tech Owl, June 1926: Westinghouse Technical Night School, Engineering, East Pittsburgh
East Pittsburgh: Westinghouse, 1926. Paperback. 11 inches tall, wraps, good copy with some wear to covers. 76 pp, illustrated. The school was available to both men and women and provided in-house training for those seeking to climb the Westinghouse ladder.
Westinghouse East Pittsburgh Divisions' 75th Anniversary, 1894-1969
Pittsburgh: Westinghouse Co., 1969. Wraps. 8 x 8 inches, wraps, very good, some soil and darkening to covers. 48 pp, illustrated. Uncommon.
1946 Bill of Complaint, Westinghouse Electric Corporation v. United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America...in the Court of Common Pleas, Allegheny County
Pittsburgh: Smith Bros. 1946. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, about very good, some tanning and discoloration to covers. 39 pp. With smaller 47 pp. Agreement Between Westinghouse Electric and United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America from 1944 affixed to rear inner wrap. The strike was a large one, 75,000 workers.....
1917 Instruction Book: Westinghouse Type RO Watthour Demand Meter
East Pittsburgh & Newark: Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, 1917. Wraps. 8vo, publisher's red wraps, very good, light wear, soil, rubbing, gentle vertical crease. 8 pp, illustrated and laid in additional instruction sheet with some numerical notes on verso. Instruction Book no. 5156. OCLC locates no institutional holdings.
1918 Instruction Book: Westinghouse Graphic Instruments (Solenoid-Operated)
East Pittsburgh & Newark: Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, 1918. Wraps. 8vo, publisher's red wraps, very good, light wear, soil, rubbing. 43 pp, illustrated. Mainly instructions for voltmeters, ammeters, power factor meters, and wattmeters. Instruction Book no. 5096. OCLC locates no institutional holdings.
1918 Instruction Book: Westinghouse Type RA Recording Demand Watthour Meter
East Pittsburgh & Newark: Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, 1918. Wraps. 8vo, publisher's red wraps, very good, light wear, soil, rubbing, gentle vertical crease. 8 pp, illustrated and laid in additional instruction sheet with some numerical notes on verso. Instruction Book no. 5177-A. OCLC locates no institutional holdings.
1919 Instruction Book: Westinghouse Graphic Instruments (Motor Operated)
East Pittsburgh & Newark: Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, 1919. Wraps. 8vo, publisher's red wraps, very good, light wear, soil, rubbing. 32 pp, illustrated. Mainly instructions for voltmeters, ammeters and wattmeters. Instruction Book no. 5190. OCLC locates no institutional holdings.
1919 Instruction Book: Westinghouse Type CR Reverse Power Relay
East Pittsburgh & Newark: Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, 1918. Wraps. 8vo, publisher's red wraps, very good, light wear, soil, rubbing, gentle vertical crease. 10 pp, illustrated. Instruction Book no. 5185. OCLC locates no institutional holdings.
Rare Westinghouse pamphlets: Charter of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company of Pittsburgh, PA, and two copies of Agreement between George Westinghouse Jr. and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, dated 12th September 1888 in regard to Turtle Creek Valley Railroad
Pittsburgh / Philadelphia: Myers, Shinkle and Co. / Allen, Lane and Scott, 1889 / 1888. Paperback. 2 scarce Westinghouse items: 1. Charter of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, 1889. Softcover, text laid-in to original wraps as issued; 8 pp.,; vertical crease down center; holograph note on last page mentioning.....