Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Registered UK Charity (No. 115342)

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,994 pages of information and 246,457 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Allgemeine Elektricitats-Gesellschaft

From Graces Guide
(Redirected from AEG)
June 1898.
February 1901.
September 1902.
1926.
1955.
1989.
1994. Modicon.

Otherwise referred to as AEG.

of Berlin.

UK branch was in Wokingham

Early 1900s was one of the three largest electrical firms in Germany

1904 Absorbed Union Electricity (Thomson-Houston) Co of Berlin[1]

1907 AEG appointed a visionary architect, Professor Peter Behrens, as Artistic Consultant.

1909 AEG disposed of their English installation, engineering and consumers' business to A. E. G. Electric Co who were prepared to quote for all AEG manufactures from glow lamps to Turbo-Dynamos[2]

Post-WWI See A.E.G. Machinery and Apparatus Co

1960s See AEG-Telefunken

See Also

Loading...

Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1904/04/29
  2. The Times Dec 15, 1909