Sometimes you don’t know your household brands as well as you think.
From the oil fields of Texas and the Social Security Act to experimental aircraft and even a Disney movie, here are some of the unusual circumstances that brought about five of the largest tech companies in America.
General Electric General Electric traces its origin back to one of America’s greatest inventors and the foundation of America’s electrical infrastructure.
Image: Thomas Edison experimenting in his laboratory. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Library of Congress
