George Westinghouse

Born October 6, 1846

Central Bridge, New York

Died March 12, 1914

New York, New York

Nikola Tesla

Born July 10, 1856

Smiljan, Croatia

Died January 7, 1943

New York, New York

American inventors

"George Westinghouse was a man with tremendous potential energy of which only part had taken kinetic (moving) form.... When others would give up in despair, he triumphed."

—Nikola Tesla on George Westinghouse.

George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla were highly intelligent inventors who together were responsible for a major turning point in the Industrial Revolution, a period of fast-paced economic change that began in Great Britain in the middle of the eighteenth century. Tesla developed a generator, a machine that converts mechanical...