RCA, Radio Corporation of America (General Electric Company)

Share receipt issued in 1933 in New York. Company founded under the laws of Delaware.

The General Electric Company was founded in 1892 by the merger of the companies of Thomas Edison (Edison General Electric Company) and Elihu Thomson (Thomson-Houston Electric Company).

The RCA company (Radio Corporation of America) was created in 1919 by General Electric, which was then looking for a way to control the emerging radio sector. The company takes over the activities of Marconi and markets equipment manufactured by General Electric and Westinghouse.

RCA launched the first 45 rpm record in 1949. RCA developed a color television process which was adopted as a standard by the National Television System Committee, which gave it its name in 1953, better known by the acronym of NTSC (competitor from Betamax!).

At the end of the 1950s, it moved into the manufacture of computers competing with brands like IBM before abandoning this activity in 1971. The company diversified and later bought out Hertz cars, for example.

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