Chances are, you’ve put a General Electric (GE – Get Report) light bulb in a lamp before. Or baked pizza in a GE oven. Or flown in an airplane powered by a GE engine.
There may be no company more linked with American manufacturing prowess, or interwoven in the daily lives of the country’s 323 million residents, than the company founded by Thomas Edison after inventing the first commercially practical light bulb in the late 19th century.