Sylvania Electric Products 1497703 216035177 2008-05-30T20:02:44Z Vegaswikian 214427 /* External links */ cats, past a stub {{Mergeto|Osram Sylvania|talk:Osram Sylvania#Merge proposal|date=October 2007}}[[Image:SylvaniaElectricLOGO.png|thumb|right]] '''Sylvania Electric Products''' was a U.S. manufacturer of diverse electrical equipment, including at various times radio transceivers, [[vacuum tubes]] and mainframe computers. They were one of the companies involved in the development of the [[COBOL]] programming language. ==History== {{Unreferencedsection|date=August 2007}} The firm was founded to repair [[light bulb]]s in 1901, and began making them as "Hygrade Incandescent Lamp Company", Hygrade merged with another firm that had been formed to make [[vacuum tube]]s in 1931 as "Hygrade Sylvania Corporation". In 1942, the company changed its name to Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. It was very successful in the early and late 1980s in India under the name Sylvania-Laxman.{{Facts|date=August 2007}} The rights to the Sylvania name in many countries are held by the U.S. subsidiary of the German company [[Osram]] which, itself, is a subsidiary of [[Siemens AG]] (SI-NYSE). OSRAM acquired the Sylvania businesses in North America from GTE in 1993.{{Facts|date=August 2007}} The Sylvania brand name is owned worldwide, apart for Australia, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Puerto Rico and the USA. by SLI headquarterd in Geneva, Switzerland. In March 2007 Havell's, an Indian manufacturer of lighting products, signed an agreement to acquire SLI Sylvania from its owners.{{Facts|date=August 2007}} ==See also== *[[Sylvania Electric Products explosion]], for a well-known industrial accident which occurred at one of their facilities. ==External links== * [http://www.manualshark.org/b/sylvania-21/ Sylvania Manuals and User Guides] * [http://www.sylvania.com/ Osram Sylvania web site] * [http://www.havells-sylvania.com/ Havells Sylvania Lighting International web site] [[Category:Defunct manufacturing companies of the United States]] [[Category:Vacuum tubes]] [[Category:Siemens]] [[es:Sylvania]]