Bruno Island Overview

In 1894, George Westinghouse purchased this 129-acre island in the Ohio River just over a mile downstream from Pittsburgh’s Point.

On the island’s southen half, Westinghouse built the first steam-driven, alternating current (AC) electrical generation plant to supply power to city customers and streetcars.

As profiled by biker and blogger Kevin Keys in his report, Pittsburgh’s Forbidden and Lost Islands, a decade later that plant became the basis of Duquesne Light.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP1R_OHCLhE