AEG
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- For other uses, see AEG (disambiguation).
AEG (Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft) (English Translation: General Electricity Company) was a German producer of electronics and electrical equipment. AEG was founded in 1883 by Emil Rathenau who had bought some patents from Thomas Edison. AEG manufactured a range of aircraft from 1910 to 1918. During WWII AEG engineers played a significant role in developing the magnetic audio tape recorder.
In 1967 AEG joined with Telefunken and in 1969 they started working with Siemens AG. In 1985 AEG was bought by Daimler-Benz. The Household Appliances business was sold to Electrolux in 1996. The Transportation business was reorganized into Adtranz which was sold to Bombardier later.
Later the company was wholly integrated into DaimlerChrysler and in 1997 the company was split. In 2005 Electrolux bought the brand name. Today several former departments of AEG still exist and use the AEG name.
Elektrizitaets in this particular instance actually means Electric and not Electricity.
[edit] Aircraft Models
- AEG B.I
- AEG B.II
- AEG B.III
- AEG C.I
- AEG C.II
- AEG C.III
- AEG C.IV
- AEG C.V
- AEG C.VIII
- AEG D.I
- AEG DJ.I
- AEG Dr.I
- AEG F.1
- AEG G.I
- AEG G.IV
- AEG J.I
- AEG J.II
- AEG R.I
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