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ID: 500369317
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500369317

 

Record Type: Person
Westinghouse, Henry Herman (American engineer and executive, 1854-1934)

Note: An engineering executive and director of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company. Younger brother of George Westinghouse. He studied mechanical engineering at Cornell University and later became a trustee there. He founded his own Westinghouse Machine Company, later taken over by George, to develop and build gas engines.

Names:
Westinghouse, Henry Herman (preferred,U,index)
Henry Herman Westinghouse (U,display)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)

Roles:
engineer (preferred)
executive
director (administrator)
owner

Gender: male

Events:
active:   New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
director of ....  Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company  
....................  (American firm, active 1889-1945) [500357014]
trustee of ....  Cornell University  
..................  (American university, Ithaca, contemporary) [500300609]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Non-Artists
 ........  Westinghouse, Henry Herman (I,U)

Biographies:
(American engineer and executive, 1854-1934) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American owner, 1854-1934) ..... [PROV]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Henry Herman Westinghouse ........ [PROV, VP]
...................................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Westinghouse, Henry Herman ........ [PROV Preferred, VP]
.....................................................  Popular Science (1872-) March, 1930: 143
.....................................................  Prout, A Life of George Westinghouse (1921)
.....................................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Popular Science (1872-) March, 1930: 143
.......... Prout, A Life of George Westinghouse (1921)
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