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The company begins
Thomas Edison forms the Thomas Edison Light Company. The company's main focus was to make lightbulbs but the name later changed. -
GE is born
The Edison Electric Light Company merges with Thompson-Houston Company to create General Electric. -
Technology begins
General Electric starts the process of making technology for people like the first electric toster for the average American. G. E. also was the first to create radio brodcast allowing people to share information quicker. -
GE helps the public
GE helps create the first large appliances for households like the air-conditioner, the dish washer, the washing machine, and television. During the Great Depression GE creates GE Consumer Finance which allows people to buy appliances and pay for them over time. -
Under the lights
The first baseball game at night time. The Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio got equipped with GE lighting Novalux lamps. Allowing people to watch their favorite team on a work day, after peoplegot home from work. That game, the Cincinnati Reds beat the Philidelphia Phillies 2-1. To make an exciting first game under the lights. -
The Jet Engine
GE creats the first jet engine that will also become the world's most produced jet engine in history -
The Small Appliances
GE comes out with the first toaster oven. This product helped single adults cook more food in different ways. -
Innovations in the Kitchen
Kitchen appliances become more complex when GE comes out with the P-7 self-cleaning oven. The oven usesa pryolytic system to remove food soil. GE even puts about 100 patents on the self-cleaning oven. -
Man on the Moon
Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon takes his first step wearing GE rubber silicon boots. GE also wroked on quality controlm, system engineering support, launch vehicle test factories, and ship-to-satelite systems. 6,000 employees helped -
Air Conditioning
A new helpful thing to all people. A portable air conditioner.
