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1892 Crystal Palace Electric Lighting Exhibitor: Coloured electric lighting of fountain<ref>The Times, 15 March 1892</ref>. | 1892 Crystal Palace Electric Lighting Exhibitor: Coloured electric lighting of fountain<ref>The Times, 15 March 1892</ref>. | ||
1894: [[Laing, Wharton and Down Construction Syndicate]] was renamed [[BTH|British Thomson-Houston]] after acquiring the British rights to '''Thomson-Houston''' patents<ref>The Times, 17 August 1894</ref>. | |||
==See Also== | ==See Also== |
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1886 Company formed to sell products from the American Electric Company.
1889 Laing, Wharton and Down announced that the part of their business related to the Thomson-Houston electric lighting system had been formed into a limited company Laing, Wharton and Down Construction Syndicate Ltd. All of the shares were privately subscribed[1].
1892 Crystal Palace Electric Lighting Exhibitor: Coloured electric lighting of fountain[2].
1894: Laing, Wharton and Down Construction Syndicate was renamed British Thomson-Houston after acquiring the British rights to Thomson-Houston patents[3].