RIP Steve Jobs
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Edison's companies
He was not a some lonely man sitting in a lab inventing stuff but rather a conglomerate. His name reside with most of the inventions because he refused to give the invention credit to the people who worked for him. Notable company that he has created and we know today would be GE.
Menlo Park Research Lab
Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York
Edison Manufacturing Company
Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Edison Studios
Lansden Company
Battery Supplies Company
Deutsche Edison Akkumulatoren Company
Edison Gesellschaft
Edison Storage Battery Company
Edison Storage Battery Garage, Incorporated
Edison Storage Battery Supply Company.
Architectural Concrete Company
Edison Crushing Roll Company
Edison Portland Cement Company
Edison Pulverized Limestone Company
North Jersey Paint Company
Pilling & Crane
Warren County Warehouse Company
Bergmann & Company
Edison Company for Isolated Lighting
Edison Electric Light Company
Edison General Electric Company (GE today)
Edison Lamp Company
Edison Machine Works
Edison Shafting Manufacturing Company
Edison United Manufacturing Company
Edison Wiring Company
Electric Tube Company
etc etc- Edison licensed his name out with the patents and getting shares of the companies as wellJSK
- Edison absolutely genius in the lab and in the banking room.popfodders
- WTF is a banking room? One of your inventions?DrBombay
- A room where you bank.JSK
- You've never heard the term? Old tyme: http://www.onekingwe…popfodders
- dunno, maybe it's a regional colloquialismpopfodders
- Lol @ mentioning things that came to be many years after he started ALONE. Idiots.CygnusZero4
- Jobs wasnt alone even right from the start. Dont act like he changed the world alone. Edison basically did.CygnusZero4