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Appendix A: Abbreviations, Acronyms, Company Names, and Variations on Company Names

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2009

William J. Hausman
Affiliation:
College of William and Mary, Virginia
Peter Hertner
Affiliation:
Martin Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenburg, Germany
Mira Wilkins
Affiliation:
Florida International University
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1886 Company: Company for Electric Lighting, St. Petersburg

ABB: ASEA Brown Boveri, sometimes ABB ASEA Brown Boveri, ABB Ltd., or ABB followed by any member of the group

ACEC: Ateliers de Constructions Électriques de Charleroi

ACENE: Ateliers de Constructions Électriques du Nord et de l'Est

ADB: Asian Development Bank

Adriatic Electric Company: Società Adriatica di Elettricità (SADE)

ADRs: American depository receipts

ADSs: American depository shares

AEG, Berlin: Allgemeine Elektrizitäts Gesellschaft, sometimes rendered Allgemeine Elektricitäts Gesellschaft

AEI: Associated Electrical Industries

AFPC: American & Foreign Power Co.

AIAG: Aluminium Industrie AG

AIC, New York: American International Corporation

Alabama Traction Light and Power Company, Ltd. (ATLPC)

Alcoa: Aluminum Company of America

Allgemeine Elektricitäts Gesellschaft: AEG

Allgemeine Elektrizitäts Gesellschaft: AEG

Allmänna Svenska Elektriska AB (ASEA)

Alsthom: Société Générale de Constructions Électriques et Mécaniques

Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa)

Aluminium Industrie AG (AIAG)

American & Foreign Power Co. (AFPC)

American depository receipts (ADRs)

American depository shares (ADSs)

American Intercontinental Trade and Services (Amitas)

American International Corporation (AIC)

Amitas: American Intercontinental Trade and Services

Anglo-Japanese Hydro-Electric Company, Ltd.: otherwise referred to as the Anglo-Japanese Water Power Company or the Anglo-Japanese Water Power Electric Company

Anglo-Japanese Water Power Company: Anglo-Japanese Hydro-Electric Company, Ltd.

Anglo-Japanese Water Power Electric Company: Anglo-Japanese Hydro-Electric Company, Ltd.

APEC, Athens: Athens Piraeus Electricity Company, Ltd.

ASEA: Allmänna Svenska Elektriska AB

ASEA Brown Boveri: ABB

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Associated Electrical Industries (AEI)

Ateliers de Constructions Électriques de Charleroi (ACEC)

Ateliers de Constructions Électriques du Nord et de l'Est (ACENE)

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Global Electrification
Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878–2007
, pp. 277 - 290
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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