page_title: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
section_title: 1950s to 1970s
hierarchical_section_title: Westinghouse Electric Corporation / Timeline of company evolution / 1950s to 1970s
caption_attribution_description: English: Computer-controlled Westinghouse sign atop the Wesco Building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The sign was demolished in 1998.
context_page_description: The first incarnation of Westinghouse Electric Corporation, an American manufacturing company, was founded on January 8, 1886, by George Westinghouse. It was originally named Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, and was renamed Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1945. The company acquired the CBS television network in 1995, and was renamed into the first incarnation of CBS Corporation before being acquired by Viacom in 1999.
  As of August 2019, the Westinghouse brand is managed by the Westinghouse Licensing Corporation, a subsidiary of ViacomCBS that became the legal successor to Viacom. The nuclear power business, Westinghouse Electric Company, was spun off from the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1999.
context_section_description: 1951 – conducts first live network TV in U.S.
  1952 – opens Cathode Ray Tube facility in Horseheads, New York; facility housed three divisions: Cathode Ray Tube, Electronic Tube, and Industrial and Government Tube.
  1954 – enters finance as Westinghouse Credit Corporation
  1955 – buys KDKA-TV (then WDTV) and KYW (originally, and currently WTAM) radio Cleveland.
  1955 – Westinghouse J40 engine failure causes all F3H fighters using the engine to be grounded, and all other jets using it to switch to other engines. Westinghouse forced out of aircraft engine business.
  1957 - introduces first successful "cobra head" roadway luminaire, the OV-25, integrating both ballast and optics in a more streamlined modern design.
  1961 – acquires Thermo King (sold in 1997 to Ingersoll Rand)
  1964 – begins Skybus project; beginning of automated mass transit
  1965 – buys Marketeer Electronic Vehicles
  1966 – founds Cinema Center Films
  1966 – starts housing and real estate development divisions
  1966 – buys a toy manufacturer
  1967 – lights America's first computer-controlled outdoor electric sign
  1967 – makes the lowest bid for the BART project
  1969 – buys 7-Up bottling
  1973 – develops world's first AMLCD displays
  1974 – sells well-known home appliance division to White Consolidated Industries which becomes White-Westinghouse
  1979 – withdraws from all oil related projects in the Middle East after Iranian Revolution
caption: Pittsburgh Westinghouse Sign, 1967.
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