Multiple choice general knowledge

Who is the founder of General Electric?

  1. Jack Welch

  2. Jeffery R Immelt

  3. Thomas Alva Edison

  4. Nikolai Tesla
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Explanation

Thomas Alva Edison co-founded General Electric in 1892 through the merger of his Edison General Electric Company with Thomson-Houston Electric Company. Jack Welch and Jeffrey Immelt were notable GE CEOs, not founders. Nikolai Tesla (properly Nikola Tesla) worked with Edison briefly but was a rival inventor and not associated with founding GE.

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