General Electric Fort Wayne History

Featuring interviews with former employees and historians.

General electric fort wayne history.

Fort wayne earned a large feature in the wall street journal in early january for its ambitious efforts to renovate the ge campus a 440 million project that spans more than 1 2 million square feet near the heart of downtown. Ge rises to the challenge of building a world that works. The general electric company had its beginning in fort wayne in 1881 when james a. The story of general electric in fort wayne preview.

Jenny the inventor of an electric arc lamp and a small electric generating dynamo came to the city with his son charles with plans of manufacturing these products. Our credit union has deep roots to the history of general electric and the people that helped build the legacy that it left behind. The ge project promises to be one of the biggest renovation efforts in northeast indiana s history. Once employing almost 40 percent of fort wayne s workforce ge s.

In 1947 they were one of the founding members of the nibl competing there for one. The fort wayne general electrics was an amateur basketball team located in fort wayne indiana and competed in the national basketball league and the national industrial basketball league they joined the nbl who later formed the nba in 1937 but they stayed there for 1 year returning to their amateur status. Connecting local people past and present to places and events in regional and american history this presentation goes back to the origins of the company in the 1880s before becoming a part of general electric. Archival images from the clovis linkous collection provided by the history center allen county fort wayne historical society.

Wane as electric works prepares to move forward with their renovations to the general electric campus in downtown fort wayne a documentary is exploring the history of the. The story of general electric in fort wayne will take you on a journey 140 years in the making. Telling the story of the fort wayne jenney electric company and its transition to becoming part of general electric. So it s no surprise general electric established a factory in this part of indiana in 1911 there were over 10 000 workers in that factory alone making it an important landmark for the fort wayne community and leaving some residents now less than excited it s going to be redeveloped.