NEW TYRES FOR MOTORS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1175, 10 July 1911, Page 5

NEW TYRES FOR MOTORS.

' ♦ . ,■ MR. WESTINGHOTJSE'S INVENTION. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyrliht (Rec. July 9, 5.5 p.m.) New York, July 8. Mr. George Westinghouso, of Pittsbuig, the inventor, has announced that he has invented a perfected air-spring wheel which is intended to replace the present rubber automobile tyres. Mr. George Westinghouse was born In New York State in 1846. Ho is now preeident of 30 corporations, the aggregate, capital of which is .£24,000,000, and which employ about 50,000 workmen. He was educated at the State public and high schools, with a year at a university. He then entered his father's machine shops, and later served in both the United States Army and Navy. In 1865 he invented a device for replacing derailed steam cars, and in 18G8 came his famous invention of tho air brake. He later applied pneumatic devices to railway signalling and switching. Turning his attention to electricity, Mr. Westinghouse succeeded, in spite of great opposition, in introducing the alternating current system of electric distribution for light and power. Ho hus also taken a foremost part in developing gas engines, and in adapting fiteam turbines to electric driving. Mr. Westinghouse has founded works for the manufacture of his pateuts in fiv.e contres in America; at. Manchester and London, England: Havre, France; Hanover, Germany; St. Petersburg, Russia; Vienna, Austria; and Vado, Italy.