Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Herman H. Westinghouse
General Manager, Westinghouse Air Brake Company
Centurion, 1899–1933
Proposed by
Frederic H. Betts and Henry G. Prout
Frederic H. Betts and Henry G. Prout
born
November 16, 1853
Central Bridge, New York
Central Bridge, New York
died
November 18, 1933
Goshen, New York
Goshen, New York
elected
June 3, 1899
Age forty-five
Age forty-five
buried
Woodlawn Cemetery,
Bronx, New York
Bronx, New York
Member Photograph Albums CollectionAlbum 9, Leaf 20
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Century Memorial
Among the family names which will probably, like Edison and Pullman, always be associated with appliances of every one’s daily life is that of Westinghouse. The last of that family’s notable group of inventive engineers, Henry Herman Westinghouse, had been continuously a moving spirit in the railway air-brake industry since the Seventies. His own discoveries adapted the steam-engine to the requirements of the day, as far back as 1883, and he followed his father and elder brother in the presidency of the family company.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1934 Century Association Yearbook
