American Electric Company
1880 - 1883
Edwin Wilbur Rice, Jr. joined Elihu Thomson, in 1880 to New Britain, Connecticut, to found the American Electric Company, which manufactured dynamos and electric arc lamps.
Taken over in 1883 by investors from Lynn, Massachusetts, the company, under the name of the Thomson-Houston Company, moved to that city. Rice became plant superintendent of the company. In 1892 a merger with Edison General Electric created the General Electric Company, with head-quarters at Schenectady, New York.