Thomson-Houston Electric Company

Thomson-Houston Electric Company

The Thomson-Houston Electric Company was formed in 1883 when a group of Lynn, Massachusetts investors led by Charles A. Coffin bought out Elihu Thomson and Edwin Houston's American Electric Company from their New Britain, Connecticut investors. At that time the company moved it operations to a new building on Western Ave. in Lynn, Massachusetts, because many of the investors were shoe manufacturers from Lynn [http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/t/thomson.htm] Elihu Thomson Papers at the American Philosophical Society] .

Charles A. Coffin led the company and organized its finances, marketing and sales operations. Elwin W. Rice organized the manufacturing facilities, and Elihu Thomson ran the Model Room which was a precursor to the industrial research lab. With their leadership the company grew into an enterprise of $10 million in sales and 4000 employee by 1892.

In 1884 Thomson-Houston International Company was organized to promote international sales.

In 1889 Thomson-Houston bought out the Brush Company (founded by Charles F. Brush) which resolved the arc lamp and dynamo patent disputes between them.

Thomson-Houston later merged with the Edison General Electric Company to form the General Electric Company in 1892.

International companies

British Thomson-Houston

(BTH) was created as a subsidiary of (American) General Electric in May 1896. It was previously known as Laing, Wharton and Down which was founded in 1886. BTH became part of Associated Electrical Industries (AEI) in 1928, which saw BTH merged with its rival Metropolitan-Vickers. This deal made AEI the largest military contractor of the British Empire during the 30's and the 40's, so during World War IIAEI would itself be acquired by the General Electric Company plc or GEC in 1967(that is no more a branch of the GE of the United States, since the nationalization of BTH by the Labour Government in the same year. GEC demerged its defence businesses in 1999 to become Marconi plc and Marconi Corporation plc, now Telent plc.

Compagnie Francaise Thomson-Houston

In 1893, the Compagnie Francaise Thomson-Houston (CFTH) was formed in Paris, a sister company to GE in the United States. It is from this company that the modern Thomson Group would evolve; demerged in 1999 to form Thomson Multimedia and Thomson-CSF (now Thales Group).

References

*Hammond, John Winthrop. "Men and Volts, the Story of General Electric" published 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.


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