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Building a Jet-Propelled Train Was Not Rocket Science for Don Wetzel
On a clear day in July 1966, New York Central Railroad engineer Don Wetzel and his team boarded a specially modified Buddliner railcar, No. M-497. Bolted to the roof above them were two GE J47-19 jet...
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Building Africa’s Growth Engine: GE to Invest Billions in Continent’s People,...
People come to Durban, South Africa, for its beaches, sunny climate and busy nightlife. But visitors interested in the future of Africa come for another reason. A few miles outside the city is the...
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This Software is Worth its Value in Platinum: South African Smelter Embraces...
Africa’s economic expansion was largely driven by commodities over the last decade. But today, satisfying demand involves more than just pulling ore and minerals from the ground faster. Companies like...
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Why The Queen Smashed A Perfectly Good Bottle of Whisky on Her Navy’s Largest...
Mike Keiller, who runs the Bowmore distillery on Scotland’s Isle of Islay, doesn’t like to see his single malt whisky spilled. “We wouldn’t generally recommend smashing a bottle of Bowmore,” he says....
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Koala Bears Suffer From Chlamydia Epidemic But Docs Fight Back with Ultrasound
Koalas have it rough. Cars and dogs kill some 4,000 of the tree-climbing Aussie icons every year. Now the entire koala population, which could number anywhere between 50,000 to 100,000, is at risk from...
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Angling in the Data Lake: GE and Pivotal Pioneer New Approach to Industrial Data
GE and Pivotal said they built the first industrial-scale “data lake” system that could supercharge how companies store, manage and glean insight from information harvested from machines connected to...
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A Secret to Laser Brain Surgery? Slice the MRI Machine in Half
In the early 1990s, Harvard radiologist Dr. Ferenc Jolesz devised a clever way for killing brain tumors with a laser. But he ran into a hard obstacle: the skull.Jolesz wanted to send a laser beam along...
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Meet the Fearbit: New Sweat Sensors Will Sniff Out Fatigue, Stress and Even Fear
Sweat can be a smelly messenger, but one that also carries a trove of valuable information about how our bodies are feeling. Scientists at several labs are now trying to pick its lock with...
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The Boy and the Bionic Hand: A Chance Hospital Encounter Sent an Engineer on...
One sunny Thursday afternoon last October, Lyman Connor climbed on his bicycle and pedaled from his Roanoke, Va., home for a ride along the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway. He didn’t make it back that...
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Why Less is More for the Health of Africa's Hospitals
The rural health clinic in Kimalamisale, Tanzania, sits at the end of a rutted sandy road some 160 miles from the nearest large town. Although the brightly colored concrete structure serves thousands...
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The Smart Power Generation: Americans Are Willing to Pay More for the Digital...
As power outages go, the iguana affair was a mundane one. On July 27, a hapless lizard shorted a piece of electrical equipment in the middle of the Florida Keys and knocked out power for 11,000 local...
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Come Baseball-Size Hail and 800 Gallons of Water: Where Jet Engines Endure...
Crews at GE Aviation’s jet engine boot camp in Peebles, Ohio, feed some 800 gallons of water every minute into the maw of a GEnx engine during a water ingestion test. The test is just one of many...
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This Electron Gun Builds Jet Engines
Engineers at the Italian aerospace company Avio have developed a breakthrough process for 3D printing light-weight metal blades for jet engine turbines.The method builds the blades from a titanium...
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No Cure But a Wish to Know: We Want to Know if Brain Disease Will Strike
There is no cure for Alzheimer’s disease, no definitive test and no way to prevent it. Yet when asked, an overwhelming number of people around the world say they want to know whether they are at risk....
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Hack Your Fridge With FirstBuild’s Smart Pitcher
Earlier this year, engineer Taylor Dawson visited his brother in Arizona after a business trip. Dawson, a GE Appliances product manager, had just signed on with FirstBuild, GE’s collaboration with...
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Is Voyager In Interstellar Space? Confusing Signals From Little Craft That Could
Is the Voyager 1 spacecraft in interstellar space? NASA says yes, but a small but respected community of researchers isn’t convinced.A quick review of the facts: Last year, NASA scientists penned a...
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What to Expect When the Deadliest Snake’s Expecting
Nearing the end of a three-month pregnancy, Fifi the northern death adder has just weeks to go before she gives birth to the 12 little lethal babies inside her. The image is not an ophidiophobe’s...
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It’s in the Blood: Microbubbles Help Biologist Jason Castle See Inside the Body
In emergency medicine, the “golden hour” is the time immediately following a trauma when intervention is most likely to save a life. Ultrasound researcher Jason Castle has experienced these critical...
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Music in the Science: DJ Matthew Dear Crafts Beats from The Sounds of GE...
DropVerb: To let or make something fall vertically.Noun (musical): A switch in the rhythm or bass line following a long crescendo. A musical climax.The industrial world buzzes, whirs, thrums and beeps...
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What Happens When the Wind Hits the Fan? Sensors and Snow Blizzards Hold Clues
When the wind hits the fan, things may not be pretty in the back. The choppy wake produced behind a wind turbine can make it tough for the other turbines on a wind farm to work at peak...
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