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How a Texas Trucker’s Family Depends on the U.S. Export-Import Bank
By Mark EganTexan Frank “Frankie” Wilson Sr.’s ties to his employer, Gaumer Process, run deep.Wilson, 60, recalls he started out making parts for Gaumer, a Houston-based supplier of heating equipment...
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The Great Paris Air Show Scavenger Hunt for GE Tech
By Tomas Kellner For GE and CFM International, GE’s joint company with France’s Snecma (Safran), the Paris Air Show was primarily about selling the latest jet engines like the LEAP, the GEnx, and the...
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The Paris Air Show through the Lens of a Pilot Photographer
By Tomas KellnerStarting a century ago, the first airshows were essentially a flying circus: roving bands of pilots and daredevils moving like a flock of birds from village to village and performing...
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GE and Partners Win $19 Billion in New Deals at Paris Air Show
By Tomas KellnerThe Paris Air Show will stay open to the public over the weekend, but the business part is over. GE and CFM International, GE’s joint company with France’s Snecma (Safran), reported a...
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This Software Can Take the Heat: Stanford Spinoff is Helping GE Develop...
By Terrence Murray She’s a massive beast that can generate up to 600 megawatts of electricity in a combined cycle power plant, the equivalent power that would be needed to supply approximately 600,000...
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Hold on to Your Seats: NASA Breathes New Life Into Commercial Supersonic Flight
By Mike Keller There were many next-generation planes at the Paris Air Show last week, but the one that was missing was the supersonic passenger jet. Still, the once and future dream of traveling from...
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What Happens Inside A Jet Engine? GE Lashed Together A Bunch Of...
By Tim Weber Vittorio Michelassi is patient man, but even he doesn’t have enough time. As the chief engineer for aerodynamics at a GE Aviation research center, his job is to figure out “what’s really...
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Watch this Inspire Drone Shoot Hoops with GE’s ecoROTR
By Zack LordIt looks like a UFO stuck on a giant utility pole, but the ecoROTR– or Energy Capture Optimization by Revolutionary Onboard Turbine Reshape – could light the way to bigger, better and more...
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“I Love Them All:” Pilot and Photographer Adam Senatori Talks About Shooting...
By Tomas Kellner In 2012, Chicago-based pilot and photographer Adam Senatori won an Instagram photo contest sponsored by GE. The award was a first class trip to the GE Aviation’s plant in Wales and to...
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City Lights: Intelligent LEDs Could Save Lives, Not to Mention Money and Time
By Jermaine Dallas Imagine this scenario: A gunshot echoes down a city street at night. Passerby turn to look, but can’t make out the scene in the darkness. The first to react effectively is the...
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This Grounded Jet Engine Is Helping Keep the Lights on at the World’s Largest...
By Thomas Millas Everything is big in Texas, but when it comes to hospitals, the Texas Medical Center in Houston is the biggest in the world. Laid out over an area more than 50 percent larger than New...
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GE Capital Ends Second Quarter with $68 Billion in Announced Deals, Focuses...
By Amrita Mainthia In the three months since GE said it would leave the bulk of its banking business and focus on growing its industrial core, the company has announced deals to sell assets of GE...
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Do the Locomotion: This VR Experience Lets you Ride a Brand New GE Locomotive...
By Zack Lord How do you test a brand new locomotive? You take it to a custom track hooping over hundreds of high-altitude acres of a remote Colorado prairie, and push it hard to prove its mettle.The...
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Snow on July 4? Only in New York
By Tomas Kellner On July 4, 1776, 13 American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain and gave birth to the United States of America. A few centuries later, GE scientist Vincent...
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The Stuff Superheroes Are Made Of: Super Materials Arrive At Comic Con
By Mike Keller Where do super powers come from? For Superman, it was his Kryptonian body that allowed him to harvest energy from the sun and obtain super strength. For Batman, it was his superior...
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If Ships Could Fly: Big Data Dawn on the High Seas
By Tomas KellnerA seaborne locomotive sounds like a crazy idea, but engineer Andy McKeran, who designs heavy-duty offshore equipment at GE, might give it another look. “One of the big benefits of...
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Tour de Force: Watch the World’s Largest Gas Turbine Wheel Across France
By Tomas KellnerThere were crowds of people lining the roads in northeast France last week, waiting to catch a glimpse of a world champion passing by.But rather than cheering a peloton of Tour de...
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Deep Machine Learning: GE and BP Will Connect Thousands of Subsea Oil Wells...
By Tomas Kellner In 1894, California businessman Henry L. Williams drilled a pair of oil wells at the end of a pier sticking out 300 feet into the Pacific Ocean in Summerland, some 90 minutes up the...
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Team Rebound: GE and NBA Seek to Keep Game Injuries on the Sidelines
By Victoria Ifan As an engineering student at Stanford University in the 1980s, Garry Gold was leading an active lifestyle, running marathons and playing sports. But then he tore his ACL - the...
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Power Trip: Watch These Scientists Catch Lightning on Top of the Empire State...
By Connolly Jurkiewicz Electrical storms and lightning have been around since Earth’s infancy – possibly even sparking first life. Yet 4.5 billion years later we still understand strikingly little...
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