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Bright Lights: Connected LEDs From GE Illuminate The Future of Lighting
In 1912, in East Cleveland, Ohio, engineers at GE’s National Electric Lamp Association (NELA) Park buried a time capsule inside a hollow cornerstone of their building. The lead box held, among other...
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The Turbocharger: 3D Printing And Data Help This Engineer Design Parts For...
Jaroslaw Weronko deals with a lot of stress, but he likes it that way. As one of the engineers working on the new GE Catalyst turboprop engine, his job is to make sure that one of the engine’s key...
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Old Flame: How ‘Waste’ Fuel Will Keep The Lights On In Ghana
A gas flare is a common sight in petroleum-rich West Africa. The roaring flame is a symbol of wealth, signifying the presence of an oil or gas field. But it is also a symbol of waste and pollution,...
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Friends In High Places: The First American Jet Engine Was Born Inside a Power...
Most people know Thomas Edison for inventing the first practical light bulb. But the GE founder also was a serial entrepreneur whose patents helped spawn new industries including medical imaging, power...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
NASA is planning to bring a swarm or robotic Marsbees to the Red Planet, engineers in Berkeley figured out how to 3D print liquids inside liquids, their pals at USC developed retinal implants that...
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Going For Great: In A Deal Valued At $6.5 Billion, GE Jet Engines Will Power...
Just two weeks ago, a Qantas Boeing 787 Dreamliner flew nonstop between Australia and London, a flight that lasted more than 17 hours and covered 9,000 miles. The two GE engines that powered the jet...
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A Blast From The Past: This Edison Discovery Powers The World’s Largest Jet...
Everyone knows that Thomas Edison created the modern lightbulb. But it’s a lesser-known Edison discovery — tied to the bulb’s birth — that’s now enjoying the limelight.In 1879, the inventor and GE...
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Digital Highway: How Do You Build Air Traffic Control For The Road? One...
When pedestrians braved street traffic in Victorian London in the 1800s, they had to navigate a hazardous morass of trolley cars, horse-drawn buses and donkeys. If the trolley didn’t knock them over,...
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Smooth Move: Turning The Country’s Biggest Port Into A Digital Hub
If Richard Scarry, the children’s author, illustrator and creator of Busytown, had ever attempted to map out the Port of Los Angeles, the intricate illustration would have looked, well, mighty busy...
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In Cold Blood: These Scientists Are Using Very, Very Cool Science To Fight...
When doctors diagnosed 5-year-old Emily Whitehead with leukemia in 2010, they quickly ordered a round of chemotherapy, the standard treatment. But unlike most kids suffering from her type of blood...
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New tech could help patients manage diabetes and prevent vision loss, hydrocarbon-hungry bacteria might eat up pollution on land and water, and a materials scientist came up with an “omniphobic”...
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Spreading The Light: How GE Ventures Is Finding New Partners For GE...
Roses may be red in nature and in verse, but reproducing that color on a TV screen requires more science than poetry. How we see colors boils down to the spectrum of light reflected or emitted by the...
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Skin In The Game: Gaming AI Helps Doctors Capture Clear Images Of The Body
A man who suffered a grave thigh injury a month earlier recently returned to Rhode Island Hospital because of pain and swelling in his wound. The cut now appeared to be infected and required a minor...
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Sensors And Sensibility: GE Apps Are Transforming Industries
One late-summer day in 2011, a woman was bicycling along the West Side Highway trail in Manhattan. A pedestrian ambled into her path, and she swerved to avoid him, crashing her bike and smacking the...
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New Power Generation: Why America’s Largest Electric Utility Is Adding...
Electric power was still a luxury few could afford when American industrialist James Buchanan Duke and his partners decided to build a clever system of lakes and dams on the Catawba River, which runs...
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Game On: Augmented Reality Is Helping Factory Workers Become More Productive
Jimmie Beacham is no gamer, but that didn’t stop him from hanging an Xbox console from a ceiling at work. As chief engineer for advanced manufacturing at GE Healthcare, Beacham, 44, is in charge of a...
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GE Reports First-Quarter Earnings: A Solid Start During A Critical Time
GE released its first-quarter results for 2018, starting the year off solid during a critical period. The company said it was on track to deliver on promises to customers, shareowners and employees in...
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Scientists grew “mini brains” inside rodent skulls, created a thin film that can reuse heat energy emanating from computers, engineered an enzyme that could help take care of plastic pollution and...
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Cellular Gastronomy: Data-Driven Cuisine For Cells Is Helping Nurture A New...
Hamsters are happy to stuff their cheeks with food, but their ovarian cells — a key weapon in the battle against cancer, arthritis, hemophilia and other scourges — are far pickier eaters.The...
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Oops! They Did It Again: GE Turbine Delivers Second World Record
Back in the early days of electricity, power frequency — the rate at which alternating currency (AC) fluctuates per second — was all over the place. Distribution systems operated at frequencies ranging...
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