AEG Domestic Appliances

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Appliance Manufacturer & Brand Information

AEG's history spans over 100 years,from the founding of AEG with the purchase of the German license for Edison patents to the first electrical appliances created by Peter Behrens, the father of design.

Emil Rathenau, founder of AEG, bought the German licence for the Edison patents and in 1883 founded the German Edison Society in Berlin, which was renamed General Electricity Society (AEG, Allgemeine Elektrizitaets-Gesellschaft) in 1887.

In 1889, this company went public in Berlin with an exhibition of the first electrical heating units. On show were items such as curling tongs, cigar lighters, irons and tea kettles. The 1896 AEG catalogue already contained 80 different products, among them hotplates, coffee machines and egg cookers.

Already at that time, the technology as well as the designs were impressive. At the beginning of the century, AEG was the first industrial company that employed a designer. This was the architect Peter Behrens who in 1907 was commissioned not only to design new factories but also appliances for AEG.

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.

The appliance side of AEG is now owned by Electrolux who bought the company in 1994.

As of around about 2008 most of the AEG appliances we'd seen were simply rebadged Electrolux products sold under other brand names such as Zanussi or Tricity Bendix with cosmetic differences mainly, but a few software and feature changes in an attempt to make them seem different.