This company was incorporated in New York on April 24, 1889, in a merger of Edison's three electric light manufacturing companies (Edison Lamp Company, Edison Machine Works, and Bergmann & Company), with the patent-holding company, Edison Electric Light Company. In 1889 it acquired the Sprague Electric Railway and Motor Company, and on April 15, 1892, it merged with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, another electrical manufacturer, in the consolidation forming the General Electric Company.
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The Sprague Electric Co. and the Sprague Electric Elevator Co. were started by Frank J. Sprague (assistant to Thomas Edison) in the Watsessing section of the township. The Sprague name would merge with General Electric Co. in 1902, according to a the Bloomfield Historical Society.
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