A History of Firsts
Our presence as a world leader in the engineering and production of DC motors is built upon a distinguished record of pioneering achievement in the steel and mining industries.
Working with the steel industry, Westinghouse developed and installed the:
- First electric motors in an American steel mill (1891)
- First electric drive for main rolls
- First reversing mill drive
- First large twin-motor reversing mill drive
Some of our significant achievements in the mining industry
include the:
- First application of separately excited shunt-wound DC motors
- First Ward Leonard dragline systems
- First vertical swing motors
- First laminated frame generators
- First dual circuit generator system
Perpetuating a proud tradition, TECO-Westinghouse has continued through the years to refine our DC motor product lines with quality enhancing features that secure our position of leadership within the marketplace.
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