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How One Little Engine Launched A Career That Spanned The Jet Age
Dave Seiwert was fresh out of high school in 1956 when he got the opportunity of a lifetime. In his parents’ garage, the 18-year-old built a 30-pound, 3-foot-long ramjet — a jet engine that uses...
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Powered By Blockchain: Move Over Bitcoin, Here Comes Digital Energy
The fever and frenzy gripping the bitcoin market may ultimately curtail the digital currency’s appeal. But the smart money is already betting on blockchain, the technology that allowed bitcoin to take...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Contact lenses tracked rabbits’ blood-glucose levels through their tears. A new drug silenced the “siren call” that helps cancers grow. And a carnivorous plant inspired a repellent to keep ship hulls...
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A Recipe For Disruption: GE’s New 3D Printer For Metals Prints 10X Faster...
GE engineers recently built and tested 30 different prototypes of a complex, football-size jet engine component. Thanks to cutting-edge 3D-printing technology, they were able to reach the perfect...
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Before The Grammys: How Thomas Edison Invented The Music Industry
Thomas Edison lost much of his hearing when he was still a child. “I have not heard a bird sing since I was 12 years old,” he once remarked. But that did not stop him from inventing the phonograph in...
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Small Change, Big Effect: How A New Gas Turbine Is Helping Fuel Vietnam’s...
Thirty years ago, Vietnam was in a deep economic crisis. Still struggling to recover from the war, much of the country was living in abject poverty. It wasn’t unusual to walk into a home and find...
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Meet The Scottish Farm Girl At The Top Of The Oil Industry
Before Louise Goetz became one of the first women to work the floor of an oil and gas equipment factory, before she helped lead a major European workforce and before she sold oil field equipment to the...
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Supply And Demand: An Internet Of Things App Like This One Could Help Bring...
Hackathons, the whirlwind competitions that challenge developers to solve complex problems in a short period, are like the Olympics for computer programmers. Teams compete for prizes, professional...
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All Aboard: Henry Ford’s Assembly Line Fits Train Manufacturing To A T
In 1913, Henry Ford famously offered customers a choice of any color they wanted for their Model T — as long as they chose black. That’s because Japan black paint was the only color that dried fast...
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For These Wind Turbines, Batteries Are Included: Wind-Hydro Combo Will Give...
Ever tried riding a bicycle up a steep hill and ran out of strength? That’s when an electric bike with a built-in battery might have come in handy and carried you to the top. GE Renewable Energy is now...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
An AI took a crack at decoding the mysterious language of the medieval Voynich manuscript, Chinese scientists used 3D printers to grow new ears for kids suffering from a rare medical condition, and...
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Digital Medicine: GE And Roche Will Analyze Medical Data To Find Better...
A cancer diagnosis or a stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) often bring confusion, fear and questions about the best course of treatment. That’s why a group of doctors and scientists at GE Healthcare...
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Industrial Ledgers: How Blockchain Could Accelerate Digital Transformation
If you’ve read a business, financial, or computing magazine, or website, in the past 12 months there’s a high chance that their front pages, and homepages have been dominated by stories about bitcoin...
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Flying High: How Leasing Fueled The Takeoff Of The Airline Industry
Back in 1967, Allegheny Airlines was a small business with a big idea — connect dozens of American cities with regular flights.But to do that, Allegheny needed wings. It bought regional carriers like...
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Spielberg 101: Computing Pioneer Talks About GE’s First Digital Blockbuster
One day, when he was still barely a teenager, the film director Steven Spielberg came to visit his father, Arnold, at work. It was the late 1950s and the elder Spielberg was building computers for GE...
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The Digital Hospital: Mission-Control-Like Command Center At This Hospital Is...
In the 1960s, airports started using air traffic control technology that allowed them to swiftly transition from scheduling a few hundred flights a day to managing thousands. Now, many airports handle...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we learned about a facial recognition system for cows, a bacterium that consumes toxic metals and poops out gold without poisoning itself, and a live worm that lives inside a computer and can...
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Doing Things That Matter: Olympic Ads Show GE Technology At Work
Every day, we rely on a dizzying array of ingenious machines that keep our homes warm and lit, fly us from continent to continent, and, sometimes, help keep us alive. Yet we give little thought to how...
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Engine Czech: This University Partnership Is Set To Propel Turboprop...
GE has spent the last 100 years building GE Aviation into a leading force in the aerospace industry. Since it was founded in 1918, the business unit, which brought in $27 billion in revenue last year,...
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Of Patents And Tariffs: Here Are The Surprising Results Of GE’s New Global...
What is the state of innovation? GE recently asked some 2,000 business executives from around the world, and the results are in.What are some of the more surprising findings included in the 2018 GE...
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