The consolidation did not involve all of the companies established by Edison notably, the Edison Illuminating Company, which would later become Consolidated Edison, was not part of the merger. The new company also acquired Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Company in the same year. Drexel, financed Edison's research and helped merge those companies under one corporation to form Edison General Electric Company, which was incorporated in New York on April 24, 1889. In 1889, Drexel, Morgan & Co., a company founded by J.P. Morgan and the Vanderbilt family for Edison's lighting experiments. General Electric Building at 570 Lexington Avenue, New YorkДuring 1889, Thomas Edison had business interests in many electricity-related companies, including Edison Lamp Company, a lamp manufacturer in East Newark, New Jersey Edison Machine Works, a manufacturer of dynamos and large electric motors in Schenectady, New York Bergmann & Company, a manufacturer of electric lighting fixtures, sockets, and other electric lighting devices and Edison Electric Light Company, the patent-holding company and the financial arm backed by J. The first spinoff of the healthcare division is planned for 2023 and to be followed by the spinoff of the energy division in 2024. The new companies will be focused on aviation, healthcare, and energy (renewable energy, power and digital) respectively. On November 9, 2021, the company announced it would divide into three public companies. Two employees of GE- Irving Langmuir (1932) and Ivar Giaever (1973)-have been awarded the Nobel Prize. In 2011, GE ranked among the Fortune 20 as the 14th most profitable company, but later very severely underperformed the market (by about 75%) as its profitability collapsed. In 2020, GE ranked among the Fortune 500 as the 33rd largest firm in the United States by gross revenue. Until 2021, the company operated in sectors including aviation, power, renewable energy, digital industry, additive manufacturing, locomotives, and venture capital and finance, but has since divested from several areas, now primarily consisting of the first four segments. General Electric Company ( GE) is an American multinational conglomerate incorporated in New York State and headquartered in Boston.

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