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...Edison General Electric and Thompson-Houston Cos. were merged to form General Electric Co. Beginning research for them at Lynn, Steinmetz, proudly, silently, lived four weeks without salary until the payroll error responsible was detected, righted. Always fearful of shock, his work was with Alternating Current, whose danger the Direct Current interests then so ably played up in press and courts. In 1893 Alternating Current, constant neither in value nor direction, was incalculable. For calculating this current Steinmetz, who spurned the smaller problems he was given, produced his own "symbolic method" which gave General Electric decisive advantage over competitors...
...passing through much the same pio neer period now observable in aviation. Bell had just invented the telephone. The first railway electrification was just completed. So Students Stone & Webster majored in electrical engineering, took degrees in 1888. Then came one year of separation which Mr. Stone spent with Thompson-Houston Co. (forerunner of General Electric) while Mr. Webster entered a bank to get the financial experience for the Stone & Webster company which the young graduates already visualized. In 1889 Partners Stone & Webster each borrowed $2,000 from his father, opened offices in Postoffice Square, Boston. They had one employe, their...
...General Electric Co., where the first investigation strikes, was not in existence when the Sherman Anti-Trust Law was passed. Two years later, in 1892, Charles A. Coffin founded it by combining the Edison General Electric Co. and the Thompson-Houston Electric Co. Even after this combination, it was a comparatively small concern engaged in the manufacture of electrical apparatus. Now it has plants in 40 cities, em ploys over 74,000 men and its stock approaches...
...electrical department of the L. S. S. has been fitted with a Thompson-Houston 500 volt motor and a complete outlay of shop machinery, including 2 machine lathes, 2 speed lathes, drill press and milling machinery...
April 18 - Thompson-Houston at Cambridge...