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Charles Albert Coffin (December 31, 1844 – July 14, 1926) was an American businessman who was the co-founder and first president of General Electric corporation. Early life [ edit ]
General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the state of New York and headquartered in Boston. The company had several divisions, including aerospace , energy , healthcare , and finance .
Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston merge to become The General Electric Company, with Charles A. Coffin as first president, with headquarters in Schenectady, New York (later moved to New York City). 1893 Compagnie Française Thomson-Houston, a sister company to General Electric which would become Thomson SA, formed in Paris 1894
General Electric Company share certificate, issued in 1994. The General Electric Company (GEC) was a major British industrial conglomerate involved in consumer and defence electronics, communications, and engineering. It was originally founded in 1886 as G. Binswanger and Company as an electrical goods wholesaler based in London. It quickly ...
Founded in 1900 by Thomas Edison, Willis R. Whitney, and Charles Steinmetz, this lab defined industrial research for years to come. Elihu Thomson, one of the founding members of the laboratory, summed up the goal of the lab saying, "It does seem to me therefore that a Company as large as the General Electric Company, should not fail to continue investing and developing in new fields: there ...
Wilson returned to General Electric briefly, before becoming chairman of the board of W.R. Grace & Co. until his retirement in 1956. He then became the president of the People-to-People Foundation, a nonpartisan organization that promoted international friendship and understanding.
He was co-founder with Gustav Binswanger of the General Electric Company plc, and in 1910 became its chairman. [2] He was created a baronet, of Witton in the County of Warwick, on 2 July 1925 [3] and elevated to the peerage as Baron Hirst, of Witton in the County of Warwick, on 28 June 1934. [4]
In 1892 General Electric Company was created after a merger with Edison General Electric. Rice was originally its technical director. Rice was originally its technical director. He became, in 1896, vice president in charge of manufacturing and engineering, and eventually senior vice president.