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General Electric Company

A maker of jet engines for aircraft, General Electric traces its roots to 1892, when financier J.P. Morgan merged Thomas Edison's electric-lighting company with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company to end a bitter patent war. The name 'General Electric' was chosen to signal ambition to cover the whole electric market. In 2024 the company split into three independent firms — GE Aerospace (jet engines), GE Vernova (power and wind turbines), and GE HealthCare (medical imaging).