The general electric company in 1887 thomas edison moved his edison machine works to schenectady.
General electric schenectady ny history.
The document he signed is one of the most valuable records in the county clerk s office.
Schenectady was a manufacturing center known as the city that lights and hauls the world a reference to two prominent businesses in the city the edison electric company now known as general electric and the american locomotive company alco.
It is a story that follows the incredible growth of the company the city of schenectady and developments in transportation history.
Both plants continue to operate under the ge banner to this day.
General electric was formed through the 1892 merger of edison general electric company of schenectady new york and thomson houston electric company of lynn massachusetts with the support of drexel morgan co.
General electric in schenectady new york in the 1920s.
Grems doolittle library schenectady county historical society what happened to schenectady as a result of ge scaling back its.