General Electric is saying goodbye to the light bulb. The conglomerate is shedding a struggling business founded by Thomas Edison more than a century ago. The deal marks the latest step in dismantling ...
In 1889, not long after Thomas Edison invented the first commercially viable incandescent lamp in 1879, permanent electric lights were installed in the White House by the Edison General Electric ...
The entrepreneurial spirt that motivated Thomas Edison to start the Edison General Electric Company in 1890 blazes on in GE’s Energy Storage business, which powered up in September of 2011. The $150 ...