Backtracking to GE’s first-ever Australian project
April 13, 2017
In 1896, just four years after GE was incorporated as The General Electric Company, it sent one of its most experienced electrical engineers, 45-year-old Joseph Stillman Badger, from its Schenectady rail facility in the US, to oversee the electrification of the Australian city of Brisbane’s horse-drawn tram network.
