Toshiba. Toshiba... something about selling missile secrets to Russia? Prevented from doing business with US entities for five years? Maybe my imagination.
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Jack Coats <j...@coats.org> wrote: > Tesla was the geek that Westinghouse (the business person) tried to make > rich, but Tesla never really got the 'money' thing. Science and ideas were > everything to NT. Tesla didn't like Edison, but Edison and Westinghouse > were more 'peer enemies' (especially in business) than Tesla v. Edison. > > Edison's empire was the basis of todays GE. Westinghouse Electric Corp > (the successor to Westinghouse Air Brake Company) is still around, just not > the powerhouse they used to be. Currently they build and manage about half > of the nuclear reactors in current operation (source: Wikipedia ... so it > is fact/not fact at your discretion) Today if you want to purchase > Westinghouse stock, you need to buy Toshiba. They acquired it in 2006. GE > is still GE on the Big Board. > > Westinghouse Licensing is owned by CBS / Viacom. And > > Tesla is still one of my geek heroes. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
