It was a successor to Edison Manufacturing Company and operated between 1911 and 1957, when it merged with McGraw Electric to form McGraw-Edison.

[2] The company had an industrial research laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey where up to 200 people were employed in the "rapid and cheap development of inventions.

[4] The company had divisions handling different products such as phonographs, Ediphone, and storage batteries.

In 1956 he arranged a meeting with his son Charles Edison, former Governor of New Jersey and Secretary of the Navy, to discuss merging their two companies.

[1] Max McGraw would joke after the merger that his name now appeared before Edison's on the New York Stock Exchange.