A tinsmith shop
Evser and Isidor Leviton started the company in 1906 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, making brass mantle tips for gas lighting.
Source: Leviton: Our history
The screw-in lampholder
In 1910 Isidor Leviton created a screw-in lampholder for the new electric light bulb. The company grew fast, moving to Brooklyn in 1916 and 1922, and by the end of the 1920s it had made more than 550 different electrical devices.
Source: Leviton: Our history
Safer and simpler
In the 1970s Leviton introduced its GFCI, the outlet that shuts off power when current leaks to ground, and launched the Decora line of rocker switches and outlets. Surge protection and early data wiring followed in the 1980s.
Source: Leviton: Our history
Leviton today
Leviton is based in Melville, Long Island, and is still its own company. In 2018 it introduced Leviton load centers, and it now also makes lighting controls, network cabling and EV chargers.
Source: Leviton: Our history
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