# George Westinghouse, Jr. — Patents explained on PatentBrief

George Westinghouse, Jr. has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [George Westinghouse's Original Steam-Powered Train Brake](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/88929/air-brake-westinghouse) — granted 1869
  An 1869 invention by George Westinghouse that used steam pressure to operate train brakes, replacing manual hand-cranked systems with a safer, centralized control mechanism.

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