General Electrical Company

In 1876 Thomas Edison opened a laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where he could explore the possibilities of the dynamo and other electrical devices that he had seen in the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Out of that laboratory was to come perhaps the greatest invention of the age - a successful incandescent electric lamp. By 1890, Edison established the Edison General Electric Company. During that period, a competitor emerged. The Thomson-Houston Company became a dominant electrical innovation company through a series of mergers. As both businesses expanded, it had become increasingly difficult for either company to produce complete electrical installations relying solely on their own patents and technologies. In 1892, the two companies combined. They called the new organization the General Electric Company... This website gives a brief overview of the General Electric Company's history of research and innovation.