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The Men of GE. Thomas
Edison, Elihu Thomson, and
Edwin
J.
Houston
1902
In 1876, Thomas
Alva Edison opened a new laboratory in
Menlo Park, New Jersey. Out of the
laboratory was to come perhaps the most
famous invention of all&emdash;a
successful development of the incandescent
electric lamp. By 1890, Edison had
organized his various businesses into the
Edison General Electric
Company.
In 1879, Elihu Thomson and Edwin J.
Houston formed the rival Thomson-Houston
Electric Company. It merged with various
companies and was later led by Charles A.
Coffin, a former shoe manufacturer from
Lynn, Massachusetts.
Mergers with competitors and the
patent rights owned by each company put
them into dominant positions in the
electrical industry. As businesses
expanded, it became increasingly difficult
for either company to produce complete
electrical installations relying solely on
their own technology.
In 1892, these two major companies
combined, in a merger arranged by
financier J. P. Morgan, to form the
General Electric Company, with its
headquarters in Schenectady, New
York.
In 1896, General
Electric was one of the original 12
companies listed on the newly-formed Dow
Jones Industrial Average. GE is the only
one that still remains today.
In 1902, General
Electric was there as a participant in the
NBS Wireless Telephone demonstrations.
(SEE EDWIN J. HOUSTON IN Left
PHOTO.
In 1911 the National Electric Lamp
Company (NELA) was dissolved and absorbed
into General Electric's existing lighting
business. At this time GE established its
lighting division headquarters at Nela
Park located in East Cleveland, Ohio. Nela
Park was the first industrial park in the
world, was added to the National Register
of Historic Places in 1975, and today
still serves as the functional
headquarters for GE's lighting
business.
The Radio Corporation of America
(RCA) was founded by GE and American
Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) in
1919 to further international
radio.
Between 1927 and 1935, 52 different
inventions in electricity were introduced
to the company by Hassan Kamel
Al-Sabbah.
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Continued
from above -Believe
it or not, in the days of Edison, before
wireless telephony was renamed "Radio,"
the word "phony" -- bothered everyone in
the wireless, especially those in the
motor - electric generator industry like
Edwin J. Houston Edison, Westinghouse,
Stubblefield and even
Tesla.
According to
History and Wiki
updates:
General Electric
was one of the eight major computer
companies through most of the 1960s - with
IBM, the largest one, being called "Snowy
White" followed by the "Seven Dwarfs":
Burroughs, NCR, Control Data Corporation,
Honeywell, RCA, UNIVAC and GE itself.
(There was also Scientific Data Systems,
much smaller than the seven dwarfs). GE
had an extensive line of general-purpose
and special-purpose computers. Among them
were the GE 200, GE 400, and GE 600 series
general purpose computers, the GE 4010, GE
4020, and GE 4060 real time process
control computers, and the Datanet 30
message switching computer. A Datanet 600
computer was designed, but never sold. It
has been said that GE got into the
computer manufacturing business because in
the 1950s they were the largest user of
computers outside of the United States
federal government. In 1970 GE sold its
computer division to
Honeywell.
In 1986, GE
re-acquired RCA, primarily for the NBC
television network. The rest was sold to
various companies, including Bertelsmann
and
Thomson.
In 2004, GE bought
the television and movie assets of Vivendi
Universal and became the third largest
media conglomerate in the world. The new
company was named NBC Universal. Also in
2004, GE completed the spinoff of most of
its life and mortgage insurance assets
into an independent company, Genworth
Financial, based in Richmond,
Virginia.
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AGAINST THE RADIO TRUST, General Electric
Company, the Radio Corporation of America,
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing
Company, American Telephone and Telegraph
Company, Western Electric Company, Inc.,
United Fruit Company and the Wireless
Specialty Appliance
company. "I
have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused
them to operate a motive device." -
Nikola Tesla; Brooklyn Eagle, July 10,
1931.
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The Early
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UpdatesHISTORY
TIMELINE OF EDISON, GE, AND
NBC-UNIVERSAL 1876 -
Thomas Alva Edison opened a new
laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Out
of the laboratory was to come perhaps the
most famous invention of all&emdash;a
successful development of the incandescent
electric lamp. 1879 -
Elihu Thomson and Edwin J.
Houston formed the Thomson-Houston
Electric Company, merging with competitors
that owed the patent rights the put them
into dominant positions in the electrical
industry.
1888 - In June 1888, Tesla
sells his patent rights for a polyphase
system of alternating-current dynamos to
George Westinghouse, Edison's biggest
business rival.
Editor's Note:
The FCC states he sold said patent rights
in 1985.
1889 -
Year
of High Frequency
Currents
1889 - In the beginning
of 1889, the first three-phase electric
power plant erected in Westinghouse's
company start operation supplying power
for induction motors in some of the
company
shops.
1889 - In 1889, for the
first time since his coming to the United
States, Tesla travels to Europe and visits
the Paris World's Fair and his
homeland.
1889
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PATENT
- Tesla's U,S, Patent 396,121Thermo-Magnetic Motor, Granted Jan.
15, 1989.
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FOR YEARS 1891 To 2006 - INCLUDES:
1896-09 - In his new
laboratory, Tesla continues with his
experiments in a
System
of Transmission of Electrical Energy using
grounded induction coils.
Granted March 20,1900. - Patent
Filed Sept. 2, 1897, CLICK TO VIEW
PATENT
radio technology. 1896-1024 -
Stubblefield Patent finling. October 24,
1896. Wireless Telephone Transmission Coil
Patent - United
States Patent No. 600,457, Granted May 8,
1898.Click to Go To US Patent Office -- then
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for: October 24, 1896.
PATENT
WAS ISSUED TO STUBBLEFIELD FOR the
ELECTROLYTIC
COIL. The
Patent was referred to as the:
Electrolitic Water Battery, the
Electrolitic Oscilating Coil, the
Induction Coil, Earth Battery, Undamped
Transmitting Coils, The Stubblefield's
Electrolytic
Detector.
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PATENT
03
1931 -
MAXWELL'S
ETHER THEORY DIES - November, 13,
1931. The one-hundredth anniversary of
Clerk Maxwell's birth was marked by the
scientific world "digging a grave for the
theory of a luminiferous ether," but at
the same time honoring Maxwell's
mathematical genius.