Company Pedigree
| Ascendant Companies | Descendent Companies | ||
| Company | Comments | Company | Comments |
| General Telephone and Electric |
In 1959, General Telephone acquired Sylvania Electric. The merged companies became GTE, General Telephone and Electric. |
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Company Overview
Founded in 1924, as Sylvania Products, Inc., as a lighting products company. Except for transistors produced before 1959, all semiconductors were produced by GTE under the Sylvania brand.