Edison Machine Works was rarely set up to produce large electric motors.
 With 1,093 US patents in his name, as well as patents in other countries, Edison is regarded as the most prolific inventor in American history
 The plant expanded rapidly and 1892 saw the merger of Edison General Electric and the Thomson-Houston Electric Company of Lynn, Massachusetts to form General Electric with the Schenectady location used as GE's headquarters for many years thereafter

