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Ken and the Art of Jet Engine Maintenance: How Father-Daughter Team Learned to Fix Jet Engines on the Kansas Prairie

June 18, 2012

Kenny Glasgow has never set foot in an executive suite but that didn’t stop him from flying…



GE Opens Edison Era Time Capsule, Turns On Century-Old Light Bulb

March 26, 2012

Employees at GE’s NELA Park in East Cleveland, Ohio, opened a century-old time capsule this afternoon. Among…



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Word Up: New Data Visualization Tracks Words to Map GE’s History, Annual Report App Points to the Future

March 22, 2012

In the beginning there was light, or “lighting,” to be precise. The word appeared frequently in GE’s…



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Edison on YouTube: The Schenectady Museum Takes Rare GE Gems Online

March 16, 2012

GE’s past is packed with great people and ideas. Many have been caught on film. Here is…



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GE Works: Decoding GE’s Industrial DNA

February 8, 2012

“G-E Equipment Helped Turn Tide in Normandy,” declared an August 1944 headline from General Electric News, the…



Thinking Outside the Cold Box: How a Nobel Prize Winner and Kurt Vonnegut’s Brother Made the Clouds Snow at GE in the 1940s

December 27, 2011

Snowball’s chance. Irving Langmuir, Bernard Vonnegut, and Vincent Schaefer are seeding a cloud to make snow.
Bing…