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unusual facts about Electric company


Edison Electric Institute

The Edison Electric Institute is the association that represents all U.S. investor-owned electric companies.


Club Sport Emelec

The club was found after an assembly of employees at the Empresa Eléctrica del Ecuador, an electric company in Guayaquil, decided to start an amateur sports league.


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Bayn Johnson

After outgrowing The Electric Company in 1975 (she was replaced by another blonde, Janina Mathews as "Gail"), Johnson made television appearances on The Love Boat, Police Woman and Switch.

Boulton Carbon Company

In 1886, former Brush Electric Company Superintendent/General Manager Washington H. Lawrence led a group of investors (including Myron T. Herrick, James Parmelee and Webb Hayes) in buying a controlling interest in the Boulton Carbon Company.

Charles Appleton

Charles William Appleton (1874–1945), vice president of the General Electric Company, judge and Assistant District Attorney in New York City

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).

Charles F. Brush

In 1882 the Brush Electric Company supplied generating equipment for a hydroelectric power plant at St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, among the first to generate electricity from water power in the United States.

Cheung Kong Holdings

The Hongkong Electric Company Limited mainly concentrates on generation and supply of electricity on Hong Kong Island and Lamma Island.

Franklin S. Billings

In 1903 he moved to Vermont and was a director of the Woodstock: Railway Company, Hotel Company, Aqueduct Company, and Electric Company.

Herald Park

Although owned by the Houston Electric Company throughout the majority of its existence, the ball park was sold to a real estate development company before the beginning of the 1904 season.

June Angela

Angela was one of several Electric Company alumni (along with Morgan Freeman and Rita Moreno and Children's Television Workshop founder Joan Ganz Cooney) who shared their memories of working on the show.

Light S.A.

Currently the controlling stake in Light is owned by CEMIG, an electric company based in Belo Horizonte.

Lloyd Morrisett

Sesame Workshop’s other hugely successful shows have included The Electric Company and Pinky Dinky Doo.

Metro Pacific Investments Corporation

Beacon Electric Asset Holdings Inc.- consortium with PLDT which also owned by First Pacific, holds 42.6% controlling stake of the Manila Electric Company (Meralco).

Spellbinder

Spell Binder, the nemesis of the title character from The Adventures of Letterman, an animated segment from the children's television series The Electric Company

The Breakfast

On Dec. 31, Spears played his final show as The Breakfast's bassist at Electric Company in Utica, N.Y. At Spears's second-to-last show two nights prior at Toad's Place in New Haven, CT, Giangreco joined The Breakfast for four songs to close the performance, including a stellar version of one of the band's most highly regarded songs, Mooboo's Voodoo (Episode 2), and then a cover of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Karn Evil 9", with Spears on lead vocals.

The United Illuminating Company

In 1899, the New Haven Electric Company, under the leadership of James English, acquired the Bridgeport Electric Light Company.

Thomson-Houston Electric Company

The Thomson-Houston Electric Company was formed in 1883 in the United States when a group of Lynn, Massachusetts investors led by Charles A. Coffin bought out Elihu Thomson and Edwin Houston's American Electric Company from their New Britain, Connecticut investors.

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.

V-2 sounding rocket

The Army assembled an Upper Atmosphere Research Panel of representative from the Air Material Command, Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Army Signal Corps, Ballistic Research Laboratory, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Michigan, Harvard University, Princeton University, and General Electric Company.

Vincent G. Apple

He was the founder of the Franklin Electric Company, Apple Dayton Electric and Manufacturing Company and The Vincent G. Apple Laboratories at Dayton, all based in Dayton, Ohio.

Zehu Ze!

Plots of the episodes revolved around different subjects related to life in Israel (for example fishermen and the decreasing water level of the Sea of Galilee, or an episode about the electric company), fashions like Folk dancing, tributes to classics like Charlie Chaplin movies, or contemporary series like The Simpsons and Dallas.