Edison Electric Light Company
Edison Electric Light Company
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Edison Company
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found: NUCMC data from New Jersey Historical Soc. for Upton, F.R. Scrapbooks, 1877-1928 (Edison Company)
found: Nerney, M.C. Thomas A. Edison a Modern Olympian, c1934, p. 111 (Edison Electric Light Company; inc. Oct. 1878 as The Edison Electric Light Company; definite article dropped from the name of the company which succeeded it in 1886-87, when it became Edison Electric Light Company; this company owned the Edison American patents covering incandescent lighting in all its details; also known as the Parent Company)
found: Jones, P. A Power History of the Consolidated Edison System 1878-1900, c1940, p. 13 (The Edison Electric Light Company; parent of all Edison electric light enterprises; org. by G.P. Lowrey as means of financing Edison's invention of an incandescent electric light system; inc. Oct. 15, 1878; merged with its own subsidiary The Edison Company for Isolated Lighting, Dec. 31, 1886 to form Edison Electric Light Company, which was succeeded as the parent Edison enterprise by the Edison General Electric Company in 1889)
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1987-02-05: new
2008-03-15: revised
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