TY - SER
KW - railroad industry
KW - Westinghouse Electric Corporation
KW - George Westinghouse (1846-1914)
KW - air brakes
KW - Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)
KW - electrical industry
AU - I. [Israel] E. Levine
AB - A novelized biography of George Westinghouse, the great engineer, inventor and pioneer of the electrical industry.  “Interested in scientific principles in terms of their practical use,” says <em>Kirkus Review</em>, “Westinghouse employed Nikola Tesla's ideas in his electrical plant [East Pittsburgh] and initiated the feud between direct and alternating current interests.”
C1 - 1868-1914
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Union Station; Homewood; Point Breeze; Oakland; North Side; Turtle Creek; Wilmerding; E. Pittsburgh; Westmoreland County; Murrysville
C4 - Children’s; Biographical; Historical
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Union Station is referred to as Penn Station, as it is commonly known. North Side is referred to as Allegheny City, as it was then known.
N2 - A novelized biography of George Westinghouse, the great engineer, inventor and pioneer of the electrical industry.  “Interested in scientific principles in terms of their practical use,” says <em>Kirkus Review</em>, “Westinghouse employed Nikola Tesla's ideas in his electrical plant [East Pittsburgh] and initiated the feud between direct and alternating current interests.”
PB - Julian Messner, Inc.
PP - New York
PY - 1962
RN - Israel Levine (1923-2003), a public-relations executive in New York, wrote children's books for three decades.
EP - 190 p.
TI - Inventive Wizard: George Westinghouse
ER -