Who is George Westinghouse from Tesla, Man Out of Time and what is their importance?

George Westinghouse was alive and very important during Tesla's lifetime. He is well known for having been a genuinely benevolent businessman rather than a "robber-baron."

At the end of the 1880s, both Tesla and Westinghouse owned electric companies. Unlike so many others, they also shared a common dream-goal. Both envisioned power generators using Niagara Falls in New York State.