General Electric Company of the United States is the largest manufacturer of electrical and electronic equipment in the United States and the world, and its output value accounts for about 1/4 of the total output value of the American electrical industry. This electric company was formed in 1892 by the merger of Edison General Electric Company and Thomson-Hausdon International Electric Company funded by Morgan Sr.
In the two world wars, the company made a fortune in the war and achieved rapid development. After World War I, the company was in a dominant position in the emerging field of electronic technology-radio. 19 19 established its subsidiary American radio company, which almost monopolized the radio industry in the United States. The second world war greatly increased the output and profit of General Electric Company.
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List of Edison's major inventions and changes;
Thomas Alva Edison-Baidu encyclopedia