Is there a connection between Edison's Maszda brand and the car company?

[VegaBean]

Here’s the way Edison branded his bulbs http://www.rugreview.com/stuf/stuf4-2.jpg

[VegaBean]

Of course it’s spelled Mazda.
{Stupid typing windoos!]

[Ezstrete]

@VegaBean

Of course it’s spelled Mazda.
{Stupid typing windoos!]

They’re both named after tjhe same goddess

EZ

[Larry_Mudd]

@Ezstrete

They’re both named after tjhe same goddess

God, not goddess – the supreme being of Zoroastrianism.

He is often misclassified as a sun god, which may be the rationale for naming a light-bulb after him.

[Polycarp]

@Ezstrete

They’re both named after tjhe same goddess

EZ

God, actually. And the truth is more complex than that.

Ahura Mazda, sometimes clipped to Ormazd, is the beneficient god in Mazdism, AKA Zoroastrianism. He is contrasted with the co-equal but weaker evil god Angra Mainyu, usually clipped to Ahriman.

The Toya Cork Kogyu Co. Ltd. was a Japanese manufacturer of machine tools in the 1920s. They decided to begin making vehicles, starting in 1931 with a light utility tricycle truck called the Mazdago (upper right photo in link). This gave rise to the Mazda make of automobiles, and the company changed its name to Mazda Motor Corp. in 1984.

The Edison Mazda light bulb was the first bulb made with a drawn-tungsten filament, and was a trademark. (See bottom two pictures here.)

On December 21, 1909, General Electric first used the name Mazda on their lamps. The name was trademarked, and assigned the number 77,779 by the United States Patent ands Trademark Office. Today, we associate the name with automobiles, but when it was first used by GE it was chosen to represent the best that the American lighting industry had to offer at the time, and was selected due to the fact that Persian mythology gave the name Ahura Mazda to the god of light. ( Source.)

[Ezstrete]

@Polycarp

God, actually. And the truth is more complex than that.

Ahura Mazda, sometimes clipped to Ormazd, is the beneficient god in Mazdism, AKA Zoroastrianism. He is contrasted with the co-equal but weaker evil god Angra Mainyu, usually clipped to Ahriman.

The Toya Cork Kogyu Co. Ltd. was a Japanese manufacturer of machine tools in the 1920s. They decided to begin making vehicles, starting in 1931 with a light utility tricycle truck called the Mazdago (upper right photo in link). This gave rise to the Mazda make of automobiles, and the company changed its name to Mazda Motor Corp. in 1984.

The Edison Mazda light bulb was the first bulb made with a drawn-tungsten filament, and was a trademark. (See bottom two pictures here.)

I’m not retreatimg from a superior force-I’m just advancing in another direction!

I know when to get out!

EZ