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Westinghouse Electric East Pittsburgh Facility Interior View

1956-06-16

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Westinghouse Electric East Pittsburgh Facility Interior View
  • Title
  • Westinghouse Electric East Pittsburgh Facility Interior View
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B031.F07.I04
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B031.F07.I04
  • Description
  • Description of the photograph reads, “EAST PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 16 -- Longer than three football fields and seven stories high, this new generator manufacturing aisle at the Westinghouse East Pittsburgh plant approximately doubles the firm’s capacity to produce giant electric generators and large motors. Two levels of crane runways overhead accommodate three 50-ton cranes and to 200-ton cranes. The all-steel roof is 93 feet above the ground. On the floor is the latest equipment for assembly and test of giant generators. Westinghouse now has on order generators up to 260,000 kilowatt capacity. Just three years ago, such sizes were not even on the drawing boards.”
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Westinghouse Electric Corporation.East Pittsburgh Plant.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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