<span>George Westinghouse Jr. was an American entrepreneur and engineer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry, gaining his first patent at the age of 19. Westinghouse saw the potential in alternating current as an electricity distribution system in the early 1880s and put all his resources into developing and marketing it, a move that put his business in direct competition with the Edison direct current system. In 1911 Westinghouse received the AIEE's Edison Medal "For meritorious achievement in connection with the development of the alternating current system."</span>
Some important contributions George Westinghouse made in the field of electrical power generation were the first railroad airbrakes, the improvement of the distribution of natural gas. In 1911 George Westinghouse received the AIEE's Edison Medal for meritorious achievement in connection with the development of the alternating current system.
