One Year In With GE CEO Larry Culp
Steve Winoker is vice president of investor communications at GE. For important information about our forward-looking statements, please see here. Today I’m pleased to welcome GE’s Chairman and CEO...
View ArticleThe GE9X Files: Here’s What’s Really Going On Inside GE Aviation’s “Proving...
Tucked into the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in a rural corner of southern Ohio, GE Aviation’s Peebles Test Operation, a 7,000-acre engine test complex has always been surrounded by thick...
View ArticleLooking For A Better Way: European Programmers Reimagine Hospital Waiting Rooms
Deep into his second hour of waiting for an MRI of his knee, Alexis Laugerette thought there had to be a better way. The French-born biomedical engineer and physicist went in for a 40-minute...
View ArticleIn The Money: How GE’s Latest Gas Turbine Could Help Save Florida Customers...
When engineer Sanford Moss built GE’s first gas turbine more than a century ago, things didn’t go exactly as the company planned. The machine used too much fuel and produced too little power. Moss put...
View ArticleThe 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Japanese researchers developed artificial blood that could be transfused into patients regardless of their blood type, British scientists used artificial intelligence to predict heart attacks, and a...
View ArticleFrom Lightbulbs to Power Plants: A Century In Brazil, 50 Years In Singapore;...
Sergipe, a small province tucked into Brazil’s northeastern bulge, may be best known for the sparkling beaches, colonial architecture and sweeping sugarcane fields that attract off-the-beaten-path...
View ArticleA Runaway Strep Infection Sent This Patent Lawyer To The Emergency Room. The...
At 53, David Bates had completed 16 marathons, competed in 17 mountain bike races and was training for his eighth American Birkebeiner, a 50-km cross-country ski race that takes place every year in...
View ArticleBuilding the Future of Engineering with the Edisons at GE Power
Innovation is about building a brighter future. That’s why GE Power is committed to developing the best and brightest engineering talent to build the future of innovation in the Asia Pacific and...
View ArticleMix It Up: Renewable Power Is Rising And This Tech Will Help It Shine
Many countries have set ambitious goals for getting their electricity from renewable sources. Germany, for example, wants to generate 65% of its energy from renewables by 2030. Sweden wants to achieve...
View ArticleThe Greatest Program That Never Was: The US’s Answer To The Concorde Never...
First-time visitors arriving for a meeting at GE Aviation’s headquarters should give themselves a few extra minutes: Located in the Cincinnati suburb of Evendale, Ohio, the plant is huge, security is...
View ArticleSharing Is Caring: A New Network For Medical Scans Will Help The Country’s...
As the nation’s largest public health service, NYC Health + Hospitals is something of a medical marvel. Its 70 locations — 11 hospitals, as well as other facilities, such as community health clinics,...
View ArticleBASIC Necessities: How GE Helped Launch The Computing Language That Changed...
In the wee hours on May 1, 1964, in the basement of Dartmouth’s College Hall, something extraordinary happened. Professor John Kemeny and a student typed a single-word command, “RUN,” from two separate...
View ArticleThe 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A U.S. Navy engineer filed an intriguing patent for energy’s holy grail, a compact nuclear fusion reactor; the world’s largest 3D printer produced — what else? — the world’s largest 3D-printed object;...
View ArticleAtlantis Is Calling: GE Turbines To Power The World’s Largest Offshore Wind...
Ever since Plato wrote about the lost island of Atlantis, scientists and enthusiasts of every ilk have been searching for it. One location that’s gathered a lot of attention is Dogger Bank, a vast...
View ArticleBreath Of Life: These Water Turbines Help Revive Dead Zones In Rivers
The most important freshwater source in central North Carolina, the Yadkin River basin is home to some 38 rare species of fish and mollusks, like the Savannah lilliput and Carolina heelsplitter. The...
View ArticleBlades of Glory: Meet Raider-X, America’s Next-Gen Chopper
This week the helicopter maker Sikorsky — part of Lockheed Martin — unveiled plans for a new craft called the Raider X, an “agile, lethal and survivable compound coaxial helicopter” designed for the...
View ArticleThe Art of Science: Inside The Decades-Old Love Affair Between Artists And GE
Norman Rockwell painted ad posters for GE, as did Herbert Bayer, the last living member of the Bauhaus movement. Cult science-fiction illustrator Dean Ellis drew the changing face of downtown America...
View ArticleThe 5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week
A robot hand that can solve a Rubik’s Cube, artificial embryos grown in the lab, a “bizarre, brainless blob” that can heal itself and has a fondness for oatmeal — oh, and there’s persuasive evidence...
View ArticleIntellectual Air: Long-Haul Qantas Flight Is A Research Lab With Wings
Late in the evening on Friday, Oct. 18, about 40 people boarded a Qantas flight in New York City. More than 20 hours later they landed in Sydney. The world’s longest nonstop commercial flight had...
View ArticleOops, They Did It Again … And Again: Bombardier’s New Luxury Jet Just Keeps...
In March, a Bombardier Global 7500 business jet powered by a pair of GE engines set a world record by flying nonstop from Singapore to Tucson, Arizona. The plane, which covered 8,152 nautical miles...
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