Edison Lamp Co
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Edison Lamp Co
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DO NOT USE THIS CODE FOR POST-1889 REFERENCES TO THE \"LAMP COMPANY.\"" TAEB 6: 661-662. This company succeeded the Edison Electric Lamp Company, a lamp manufacturing concern which had been organized in 1881 as a partnership of Edison, Charles Batchelor, Edward H. Johnson, and Francis R. Upton. In May 1881 the company changed its name to the Edison Lamp Company, and in 1884 the partnership became a corporation. The company merged with several other Edison companies in 1889 to become the Edison General Electric Company. After that date, the former Lamp Co. functioned as a separate department within EGE Co. See Fairfield material. D8021T"
