Thomson-Houston Electric Company

The company Thomson-Houston Electric Company was founded in 1883 on the basis of fusion of the company American Electric Company of Elihu Thomson and of the interests of Edwin Houston.

Thomson-Houston was amalgamated with the company Edison General Electric Company, to give birth in 1892 to the company General Electric Company.

International companies

British Thomson-Houston

British Thomson-Houston (BTH), founded in May 1896, was a subsidiary company of General Electric. It existed since 1886 under the name of Laing, Wharton and Down. BTH was integrated into the company Associated Electrical Industries (AEI) in 1959, by a fusion of BTH with Metropolitan-Vickers. AEI was then acquired by General Electric Company plc or GEC (without bond with the American company General Electric) in 1967. GEC proceeded in 1999 to a scission of its linked activities to defense, creating two companies, Marconi plc and Marconi Corporation plc, become since Telent plc.

French company Thomson-Houston

Founded in 1893 in Paris, the French Company Thomson-Houston, then subsidiary of General Electric, is the first name of the company Thomson-CSF.

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