G.E., Which Traces Its Roots to Thomas Edison, Sells Its Lighting Business
Major League Baseball played its first night game under G.E. floodlights in 1935. Nick Holonyak, an engineer, developed the first visible light-emitting diode, or LED, at a G.E. lab in 1962. And the company’s connection to the light bulb was captured in its ubiquitous television commercials, which promised, “We bring good things to life.”
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/us/General-electric-light-bulb-business.html