General Electric was an American industrial conglomerate formed in 1892 when Thomas Edison's Edison General Electric Company merged with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company in a consolidation arranged by the financier J. P. Morgan. For more than a century it built electric power equipment, lighting, appliances, aircraft engines and medical imaging systems, and its laboratories and factories shaped how electricity reached homes and workplaces. Its place in media history comes from broadcasting: GE owned the NBC television network from 1986 until 2013 after buying its former subsidiary RCA, and it passed NBC on to Comcast through NBCUniversal in 2011. Between 2021 and 2024 the company split into GE Aerospace, GE HealthCare and GE Vernova; GE Aerospace is the legal successor and took over the General Electric name, so the old conglomerate no longer exists.
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General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate.
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GE was established in 1892 through the merger of Thomas Edison's Edison General Electric Company and the Thomson-Houston Electric Company
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General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate.
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Following these transactions, GE Aerospace took the General Electric name and ticker symbols, while the old General Electric ceased to exist as a conglomerate.
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From 1986 until 2013, GE was the owner of the NBC television network
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