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In 1889, Thomson-Houston bought out the Brush Company (founded by Charles Brush) which resolved the arc lamp and dynamo patent disputes between them. In 1892, Thomson-Houston was merged with the Edison General Electric Company of Schenectady, New York (arranged by John Pierpoint Morgan ), to form the General Electric Company.
With Edwin J. Houston, a former teacher and later colleague of Thomson's at Central High School, Thomson founded the Thomson-Houston Electric Company.Notable inventions created by Thomson during this period include an arc-lighting system, an automatically regulated three-coil dynamo, a magnetic lightning arrester, and a local power transformer. [4]
Under Coffin, Thomson-Houston deployed power plants in the South, including two in Atlanta, Georgia, to run the electric lighting and in 1889, Joel Hurt's electric streetcar line. [ 5 ] When General Electric was formed from Thomson-Houston and Edison's companies, Coffin was its first chief executive officer .
The YCT operated a fleet of 45 trams. 1–18 Eighteen cars 1910 from British Thomson-Houston; 19 Water car 1910 from British Thomson-Houston; 20–23 Four additional cars 1912 from British Thomson-Houston
Associated Electrical Industries (AEI) was a British holding company formed in 1928 through the merger of British Thomson-Houston (BTH) and Metropolitan-Vickers electrical engineering companies. In 1967 AEI was acquired by GEC, to create the UK's largest industrial group. A scandal that followed the acquisition is said to have been instrumental ...
Houston was born July 9, 1847, to John Mason and Mary (Lamour) Houston in Alexandria, Virginia.He graduated from Central High School of Philadelphia (a degree-granting institution rather than an ordinary high school) in 1864. [1]
British Thomson-Houston (BTH) was a British engineering and heavy industrial company, based at Rugby, Warwickshire, England. Originally founded to sell products from the Thomson-Houston Electric Company , it soon became a manufacturer using licences from the American company.
The Houston Street station is a local station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at West Houston and Varick Streets in the Greenwich Village and Hudson Square neighborhoods of Manhattan , it is served by the 1 train at all times and by the 2 train during late nights.