Sylvania Electric Products
Sylvania Electric Products was an American company that manufactured radio tubes , light bulbs and fluorescent tubes.
history
Matthew Melville Merritt (1869–1936) had a patent for refurbishing carbon filament lamps and operated the Merritt Manufacturing Company in Middleton , Massachusetts , Massachusetts , in the building of the former Merriam and Tylor Shoe Factory . Frank A. Poor had $ 3,500 from the sale of his hay and grain business and thus acquired a stake in the company in 1901. Soon after, he also acquired the remaining shares in the company, relocated the company to Danvers (Massachusetts) and called it The Bay State Lamp Company , which soon produced new carbon filament lamps, from 1911 also with tungsten filaments. In 1909 he founded The Hygrade Lamp Company with his brothers Walter E. Poor and Edward J. Poor to sell his light bulbs.
General Motors acquired shares in the company in 1910 and appointed Bernard G. Erskine as managing director of the Novelty Incandescent Lamp Company (NILCO ) founded in St. Marys (Pennsylvania) in 1906 for the production of decorative miniature light bulbs. In 1922 Ereskin bought NILCO with two partners.
In 1924, NILCO founded the Sylvania Products Company to manufacture radio tubes . In 1931 Hygrade, Nilco and Sylvania were merged to form the Hygrade Sylvania Corporation . In the 1930s, the company developed the first fluorescent tubes , which were presented at the 1939 New York World's Fair .
1959 went Sylvania with the General Telephone Corporation under the new name General Telephone & Electronics Corporation (GT&E) together. In 1980 the Sylvania brand for consumer electronics was given to the Dutch Philips . After further reorganization, GTE Corporation left the lighting business in 1993. The global rights to the brand name Sylvania are today Feilo Sylvania with the exception of the US, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand, for the American subsidiary of Osram holds the rights.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shirley Paul Raynard Middleton ; P. 58
- ↑ Shirley Paul Raynard Middleton ; P. 59
- ↑ picture of the newly founded company.
- ^ The NILCO Story
