Edison & Swan United Electric Light Company with the merger of the Swan United Electric Company and the Edison Electric Light Company. Thomas Edison established...
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of the Edison & Swan United Electric Light Company. Known commonly as "Ediswan", the company sold lamps made with a cellulose filament that Swan had invented...
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design. The rivalry between Swan and Edison eventually led to a merger, forming the Edison and Swan Electric Light Company. By the early twentieth century...
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bulbs made popular by Edison Electric Light Company at the turn of the 20th century. They are easily identified by the long and complicated windings of...
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Friedel and Paul Israel list inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison of General Electric. They conclude that Edison's version...
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Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power...
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other electric lighting devices; and Edison Electric Light Company, the patent-holding company and financial arm for Edison's lighting experiments, backed...
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started with the use of Arc lamps, soon followed by Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan's incandescent light bulb. Most indoor lighting prior to this was done by...
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British Thomson-Houston (redirect from British Thomson-Houston Company)
with Edison General Electric Company in 1892. At this stage Laing, Wharton and Down was renamed as British Thomson-Houston and General Electric became...
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time, and was chairman from 1872 until 1901. He held many other board posts: he was chairman of the Edison and Swan Electric Light Company and two other...
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telecine Edison and Swan Electric Light Company (British Mazda/EdiSwan): ME91 – AC/DC mains tuning indicator Edison and Swan Electric Light Company (British...
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investor-owned electric utilities (IOUs) in California; the other five are PacifiCorp, Southern California Edison, San Diego Gas & Electric, Bear Valley Electric, and...
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SS Servia (section Electric lighting)
performed by the Edison and Swan Electric Light Company. In addition to the incandescent lamps, Servia was also fitted with a new type of compass and deep-sea...
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Thomas Edison, American inventor – Edison and Swan Electric Light Company, Edison effect, Edison Gower-Bell Telephone Company of Europe, Ltd., Edison Hotel...
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Thomson-Houston, Edison Swan, Siemens Brothers & Co, Hotpoint, William Thomas Henley and Birlec. In 1968, GEC merged with English Electric, incorporating...
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History of Newcastle upon Tyne (category History of Tyne and Wear)
Eventually the two rivals agreed to form a mutual company between them, the Edison and Swan Electric Light Company, known as Ediswan. Charles Algernon Parsons...
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manufactured by the Edison Records company in the U.S. from 1912 to 1929. Made from a nitrocellulose compound developed at the Edison laboratory—though...
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Electric Lighting". 1879 Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan patent the carbon-thread incandescent lamp. It lasted 40 hours. 1880 Edison produced a 16-watt lightbulb...
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and ventilation system was designed and installed by W.W. Phipson and electric lighting was installed by the Edison and Swan Electric Light Company....
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Thomas Edison, Sells Its Lighting Business". New York Times. Retrieved December 3, 2023. General Electric official history Trumbull Electric Manufacturing...
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by Joseph Swan's incandescent lamp on 3 February 1879. Consequently, Newcastle has the first city street in the world to be lit by electric lighting....
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John Ambrose Fleming (section Education and marriages)
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, Swan Company, Ferranti, Edison Telephone, and later the Edison Electric Light Company. In 1892, Fleming presented...
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Toaster (redirect from Electric toaster)
the first successful incandescent lightbulbs by Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison. However, the light bulb took advantage of the presence of a vacuum, something...
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William Joseph Hammer (category Edison Pioneers)
advertising sign using incandescent electric lights. He was chief engineer when the English Edison Electric Light company built a central station in London...
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Electrification (category Electric power)
other electric companies were establishing central power stations and distributing electricity, including Crompton & Co. and the Swan Electric Light Company...
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Bayonet mount (redirect from Light bulb bayonet mount)
that for CD spindles. Bi-pin lamp base Storz Arri bayonet Joseph Swan BNC connector Edison screw "Fiji Electricity Authority Tender Document" (PDF). Ancient...
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Thorn Lighting (category Manufacturing companies established in 1928)
'Metrovick' brand; and the Edison & Swan Electric Light Company (Ediswan), which had recently transferred its factory at Ponders End and ‘Royal Ediswan’...
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Phoebus cartel (redirect from Light bulb cartel)
D.Sc. Eino Tetri, Leader of the Light Sources and Energy Group in Aalto University United States v. General Electric Co. et al., 82 F.Supp. 753 (D.N.J...
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English Electric acquired the Marconi Company in 1946 to complement its other operations: heavy electrical engineering, aircraft manufacture and its railway...
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Lampshade (category Light fixtures)
light downwards, while another reflector, slightly concave and near the flame, directed the light laterally. In 1879, Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison independently...
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