Westinghouse Tele-Computer Center

1955/1960

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Westinghouse Tele-Computer Center
  • Title
  • Westinghouse Tele-Computer Center
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F15.I06
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B021.F15.I06
  • Description
  • Caption on the back of the photograph reads, “Shown here at right, the Westinghouse Electric Corporation Tele-Computer Center presents a dramatic picture of modern architecture and sets the theme for the unique operations performed inside. The Center is the hub of the world’s first computer-controlled industrial teletype system which performs dozens of management tasks, ranging from order processing to producing payroll checks. Located one mile east of Pittsburgh, the 40,000-square-foot Center actually is a building within a building. The 5,000-square-foot computer and tabulating area makes up a central core which is sealed off from roof to floor form the outer areas of the structure. Erected at a cost in excess of $1,000,000, the building is totally electrically heated in winter and cooled in summer by seven Westinghouse heat pumps.”
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Westinghouse Research and Development Center (Edgewood, Pa.)
    Commercial buildings--Pennsylvania--Edgewood.
  • 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
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