7) General Electric – Company Asstes: $646.6 billion
Good ol’ Thomas Edison could scarcely have believed that the little Edison Electric Light Company he founded in 1878 would eventually become the leviathan we know today as General Electric. Merging a series of his and other enterprises, Edison formed Edison General Electric Company in 1889. Originators of the vacuum tube, wireless radio, motion pictures and television, x-ray photography, the electric range and toaster, the refrigerator, the microwave oven and even the massive water-wheel generators at Niagara Falls, GE is among the largest corporations on Earth. They rank a respectable 7th on the list with assets of almost $650 billion.
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