Western Electric Company

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Western Electric Company
Other forms of name
WE (Firm)
WECo (Firm)
Start period
1915
End period
1984
Type of corporate body
Business enterprises
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Electrical engineering
Manufacturing
Maintenance
Associated Language
eng
Biographical or Historical Data
Western Electric Company (1915-1984) was an American electrical engineering and manufacturing firm.
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Other Identifiers

VIAF: 124972121
Wikidata: Q2031258
Library of congress: n 50064949
Sources of Information
  • Technical digest (Allentown, Pa.). Technical digest, July 1984:t.p. (AT&T Technologies, Inc. (formerly Western Electric Company, Inc.))
  • Wikipedia, Oct. 30, 2013(Western Electric Company (sometimes abbreviated WE and WECo) was an American electrical engineering and manufacturing company, the supplier to AT&T from 1881 to 1995)
  • Wikipedia, Nov. 15, 2013(Western Electric; Western Electric Company; Western Electric Company, Inc.; est. 1872 as Western Electric Manufacturing Company in Chicago, Ill.; incorporated as Western Electric Company in 1915 in New York, N.Y., as a subsidiary of AT & T; manufactured and serviced telephones and telephone operating equipment; reorganized as AT&T Technologies on Jan. 1, 1984)