a partnership of business leaders bought Fitch out in 1886 and organized the Spokane Falls Electric Light and Power Company. They ordered a generating plant from Thomas Edison’s company.

that the Edison Electric Light Company was a failure, and that "its employes are being discharged." View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

The “lights were turned on” at the Edison Electric Light Company as it began operation on October 15, 1878. In short, the company provided financial support for Edison’s electric light experiments in ...

He partnered with financial backers like JP Morgan and the Vanderbilt family to fund his ventures and thus established the ...

Industrial conglomerate General Electric Co. traces its roots to 1878, when inventor Thomas Edison ... new company is headquartered in Schenectady, New York. 1900 — The trademark GE logo is ...

Thomas Edison founded Edison Electric Light Co. — a firm that would later morph into the now-struggling General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Where Was The Market: The Dow wasn't established for ...