The United Incandescent Lamp and Electricity Company () was a Hungarian business which produced a range of electrical goods such as electrical switches, voltmeters, ammeters, telephones, dynamos, and carbon fibre light bulbs. It was founded by

Béla Egger Béla Egger (1831–1910) was an Austrian scientist and inventor who contributed to the development of the automobile. Biography Egger was born on 18 May 1831 in Budapest, Austrian Empire. He died on 5 July 1910 in Vienna, Austria ...

and his brothers in 1886. With the support of the

Hungarian Commercial Bank of Pest The Hungarian Commercial Bank of Pest (, PMKB, occasionally referred to simply as "Commercial Bank") was Hungary's first modern bank, established in 1840–1841. It was nationalized in the early Communist era and repurposed in 1950 as the Hungari ...

and the

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, the original company was involved in a number of mergers it became the United Electricity Company.

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