Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-03-21

Of tho steamboat. Morse Of the telegraph, Edison, Pell
and Mccormick. Before he went to college, Westing-
house served his country in the Civil War, IA the
Army and Navy. He was only twenty-one when he
invented the air-brake. The invention signifies more
than an Indispensable appliance to a train. 1t has
influenced and facilitated railroad expansion the
world over. In the field OF electricity it was the
genius of Westinghouse that demonstrated the prac-
tical application of the alternating current. 1t was
the indomitable energy Of the man that forced the
world to accept the demonstration. He possessed a
rare combination of imaginative gifts, mechanical
proficiency and intellectual driving power-that was
the kind of genius. Westinghouse was -
The Brooklyn Standard-U Union:
George Westinghouse was one of those captains
of industry who rendered distinguished services to
his country. He was an inventor of many highly use"
full things and u builder Of business concerns upon
very substantial foundations. His most notable con.
tribution to humanity is the airorakc, which has
added Unreasonable to safety of railroad travelling
the world over. Some one has expressiyely said or
the invention that it has saved more lives than
Napoleon lost in all his battles That is a high tribute
and probably in no sense an exaggeration. George
Westinghouse was Il thinker and Il worker and will
go down in history as one Of the leading figures
among the big men of commerce. His name will not
be associated with a certain group Of %ntter-lay cap
tains of industry whose specially is Playing the game
in Wall Street"
The Troy Times:
George Westinghouse was a world figure as an
inventor, and an engineer. Inevitably his name will
be linked with those. of Edison, Bell and others in
the United States and of Sir William Thomson, later
made Lord Kelvin, in England. ,lIc produced many
devices, for even as a young man he was prolific OF
ideas;2 but lie will be best remembered as the origl
Eator of the %airbrakc. now an indispensable adjunct
Of railroad operation. and for his remarkable achieve
ments, in the domain of electricity. What he did tc
promote the security and convenience Of travel and
the advancement of industry is of incalculablc value
to mankind, and he must be ranked as one of the
great ,henefactors OF the race. 1t is OF particulars in
terest that Mr.. Westinghouse was a native Of this
vicinity. having been born in schoharie County,
OctoberfG, 1876, and that much Of his early life was
his inventive fancy, and where the shop in which
his experiments were carried on is still in existence:
Pittsburgh Gazette-Tines:
Subtract from the world today the contributions
made to it by George Westinghouse and the loss
would be staggering. The deprivation would be felt
in every country, and in every c!ime-in every high.
way and field of useful effort. Tie universally
OF, his talent and the diligence with which he cult
waited and, developed it into the manifold heritag &c he
bestowed on the human race can best be approx
mated, but can not in a moment be fully estimated,
by contemplating what it would mean were it all
blottedsout with the speeding of the spark Of his
life."
. Having declared that he is for the uplift,3 Mr..
Charles Murphy may be regarded as having deliber-
ately abandoned all hope of sympathy from those