<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.
Ok so I believe that skimming is just quickly reading through the passage to look for keywords through the text to get the general overview....but previewing is getting an idea of what the text is abt withought reading the main body of it. Hope this helps!
It could possible be ironic because the rest of the world was technically already "discovered", but just not by the Europeans specifically. Therefore it is ironic, simply because they are Naive
