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unusual facts about Edison General Electric Company



Edward Hibberd Johnson

The first commercially produced Christmas tree lamps were manufactured in strings of nine sockets by the Edison General Electric Company of Harrison, New Jersey and advertised in the December 1901 issue of the Ladies' Home Journal.


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Charles Batchelor

In 1887, when Edison relocated his experimental laboratory to West Orange, New Jersey, Batchelor supervised the construction of the buildings and later became "Treasurer and General Manager of the General Electric Company" (which succeeded the Edison General Electric Company in 1892).

Thomson-Houston Electric Company

Thomson-Houston later merged with the Edison General Electric Company of Schenectady, New York, to form the General Electric Company in 1892, with plants in Lynn and Schenectady, both of which remain to this day as the two original GE factories.