ABSTRACT
British/American industrialist and record industry executive, born in London. He was educated at Reading and Oxford. He was private secretary to Colonel George E. Gouraud, the U.K. representative of Thomas Edison, in 1878. In 1881 Insull moved to the U.S. and became Edison’s private secretary, also representing him at meetings of the National Phonograph Association in 1890-1892. In 1889 he became second vice president of the new Edison General Electric Co. He was responsible for building and operating the machine works in Schenectady, New York, that evolved into the General Electric Co. in 1892, and he was for a short time second vice president of the new firm.
