General Ellectryk – GE, General Electric
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:General_Ellectryk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric
General Ellectryk leads the Light Brigade in defending the Comfort Zone of Zanadu against the Shadow. He believes Khan and your wizard to be agents of shadow. He is not convinced otherwise until your wizard defeats him in combat.
The General has not investigated if the Shadow Wall can be transversed via the sewers as the sewers are “too disgusting”.
General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the state of New York and headquartered in Boston. The company had several divisions, including aerospace, energy, healthcare, and finance.
This logo was incorporated into the logos of the three spinoff companies
In 2020, GE ranked among the Fortune 500 as the 33rd largest firm in the United States by gross revenue. In 2023, the company was ranked 64th in the Forbes Global 2000. In 2011, GE ranked among the Fortune 20 as the 14th most profitable company, but later very severely underperformed the market (by about 75%) as its profitability collapsed.
Following the Great Recession of the late 2000s, General Electric began selling off various divisions and assets, including its appliances and financial capital divisions, under Jeff Immelt’s leadership as CEO. John Flannery, Immelt’s replacement in 2017, further divested General Electric’s assets in locomotives and lighting, in order to focus the company more on aviation. After restrictions on air travel during the COVID-19 pandemic caused General Electric’s revenue to fall significantly in 2020, GE’s final CEO Larry Culp announced in November 2021 that General Electric was to be broken up into three separate, public companies—GE Aerospace, GE HealthCare, and GE Vernova—by 2024. The new companies are respectively focused on aerospace, healthcare, and energy. GE HealthCare’s spin-off was finalized on January 4, 2023. This was followed by the spin-off of GE’s portfolio of energy businesses on April 2, 2024, into GE Vernova. Following these transactions, General Electric Company changed its name to GE Aerospace, pivoted to aviation, and ceased to exist as a conglomerate.
During 1889, Thomas Edison (1847–1931) had business interests in many electricity-related companies, including Edison Lamp Company, a lamp manufacturer in East Newark, New Jersey; Edison Machine Works, a manufacturer of dynamos and large electric motors in Schenectady, New York; Bergmann & Company, a manufacturer of electric lighting fixtures, sockets, and other electric lighting devices; and Edison Electric Light Company, the patent-holding company and financial arm for Edison’s lighting experiments, backed by J. P. Morgan (1837–1913) and the Vanderbilt family.
In 1889, Drexel, Morgan & Co., a company founded by J.P. Morgan and Anthony J. Drexel financed Edison’s research and helped merge several of Edison’s separate companies under one corporation forming Edison General Electric Company, which was incorporated in New York on April 24, 1889. The new company acquired Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Company in the same year.[19][20] The consolidation did not involve all of the companies established by Edison; notably, the Edison Illuminating Company, which would later become Consolidated Edison (New York City’s power company), was not part of the merger.
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