Sunnyvale Voices - The Westinghouse Plant
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
“My name is Jack Perry, and my story is about the Westinghouse Plant in Sunnyvale where I worked as an engineer and manager for 35 years.” The Sunnyvale division of Westinghouse designed and built many notable one-of-a-kind products, including Wind Tunnel Compressors for the Air Force’s Arnold Air Research Center, said to have been the world’s largest rotating machines. Other unique orders ranged from telescopes for Kitt Peak Observatory to “Deepstar” submersible vehicles such as the one pictured to the left.
This story was made possible through a Library Services & Technology grant from the California State Library. The goal of the Sunnyvale Voices project was to record and provide access to the early history of Sunnyvale as told by Sunnyvale residents. A compilation video of all stories recorded for this project, titled “Sunnyvale Voices: From Settlers to Silicon,” is available for checkout in the Library collection.
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