Thomson-Houston Electric Company

The Thomson - Houston Electric Company was a company for the manufacture of electrical equipment, based in Lynn (Massachusetts), founded in 1883 and in 1892 merged with the Edison General Electric Company to General Electric Company.

Formation and structure

Elihu Thomson, an American electrical engineer and teacher of English origin, had founded with his colleague and former teacher, Edwin J. Houston and donors from Connecticut, first the American Electric Company. 1883 bought by investors from Massachusetts, including several shoe manufacturers, this company and moved its headquarters to Lynn.

Head and financial head of the Thomson - Houston Electric Company was Charles A. Coffin. For the production of Edwin W. Rice was responsible. Elihu Thomson led the development office.

The Thomson - Houston - main plant in Lynn is also still in operation today. Edison as the main production facility in Schenectady

Same branch of the General Electric

After the merger with General Electric this founded in the UK subsidiary British Thomson - Houston ( BTH ) and in France, a sister company called Compagnie Francaise Thomson - Houston ( CFTH ), in turn, mother of the Technicolor company whose name she took over in 2010 as Group.

Services

Elihu Thomson contributed with more than 700 patented innovations to the development of electrical engineering.

1888 Frank Julian Sprague realized by energy supply for electric railways was improved in 1889 by Thomson - Houston, and this version led to international success of the electric drive. It was taken, among others, the LEL, which merged later in the AEG.

Swell

  • Hammond, John Winthrop. Men and Volts, the Story of General Electric, 1941. 436 pages.
  • Carlson, W. Bernard. Innovation as a Social Process: Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Electric, 1870-1900 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
  • Woodbury, David O. Elihu Thomson, Beloved Scientist ( Boston: Museum of Science, 1944)
  • Haney, John L. The Elihu Thomson Collection American Philosophical Society Yearbook 1944.
  • The Northwest German commercial, industrial, commercial, marine, deep-sea fishing and art exhibition. Compiled from official sources and Correspondences excellent rapporteur, Romen'sche bookstore, Bremen 1890
  • Officieller catalog of the North-West German trade and industrial exhibition. Publisher Rudolf Mosse, Bremen 1890
  • Electrical engineering manufacturer
  • Former company (Massachusetts )
  • Essex County ( Massachusetts)
  • Established in 1883
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