Mother Of Invention: This Barrier-Busting Electrical Engineer Joined Edison,...
When Edith Clarke was born, the odds that she would one day join a group of celebrated inventors including Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, the Wright Brothers and Alexander Graham Bell seemed microscopic....
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Florence Fogler put down her work for a moment. Mustering language simple enough for a reporter to understand, she explained her task: figuring out how to squeeze more power from coal by unraveling the...
View ArticleFast Company Magazine Names Two GE Businesses Among The Most Innovative...
GE made history last year when its wind turbines started producing electricity at America’s first offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island. The landmark project, the first of several planned...
View ArticleHow Do I Love LED? Let Me Count The 5 Ways
For the first time, revenue from LED light bulbs matched traditional lighting product revenues last year. By 2020, LED light bulbs will outnumber traditional lighting. How do I love LED? Let Bill...
View ArticleThe Hardiman Strikes Back: The Age Of Robotic Snakes And Dexterous...
Fifty years ago, GE engineer and robotics pioneer Ralph Mosher presented a groundbreaking paper at the Automotive Engineering Congress in Detroit. “Man and machine can be combined into an intimate,...
View ArticleDa Vinci Code 2.0: How 3D Printing And Digital Technologies Are Altering The...
You won’t find the Italian commune of Cameri in many tourist guides. Located on the flat and fertile plains that stretch seemingly forever between Italy’s industrial dynamos of Milan and Turin, tiny...
View ArticleTry This At Home! This Kid Built An Incredibly Detailed Model Of A Boeing 777...
Luca Iaconi-Stewart says he’s “a crazy guy who loves aviation.” That might be an understatement. The 24-year-old spent the last seven years in his parent’s house building an exquisitely precise replica...
View ArticleWhat Drones May Come: The Future Of Unmanned Flight Approaches
Get a taste of a drone-enabled future by looking at innovations and explorations from researchers, students and employees at one of the nation’s largest university systems. Brandon Stark is the...
View ArticleGE Invests $4.3 Billion To Build Next-Gen Jet Engines, Open New Factories In...
The GE9X jet engine that GE Aviation is developing for Boeing’s next-generation wide-body passenger jet, the 777X, is wider than the body of a Boeing 737 and more powerful than America’s first manned...
View ArticleHello, Patient Care: AI Is Helping Me Become the Medical Doctor We All Used...
Before Albert Hsiao became a radiologist, he didn’t know performing electrical measurements in the cerebellum of rats or learning about neural networks in college would be relevant to caring for...
View ArticleA Pinky Promise: Even The Most Advanced Machines Didn’t Prepare This Doctor...
When women visit Jin-Chung Shih, it’s almost always because their doctor suspects there’s a problem with the pregnancy. Shih runs the labor ward at National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei, and a...
View ArticleLights, Electricity, Action: When Ronald Reagan Hosted “General Electric...
In 2015, the National Geographic Channel launched a new television series called “Breakthrough,” focusing on scientific discovery. The series was developed by the channel and GE, and produced by Oscar...
View Article5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week
Scientists successfully attacked cancer with rabies, built an artificial eagle eye from 3D-printed cameras the size of a grain of salt and tapped MIT students to make their scheduling AI smarter....
View ArticleA $100 Billion Idea: GE’s Jeff Immelt Talks To CNBC’s Jim Cramer About...
Jeff Immelt, GE chairman and CEO, recently sat down with CNBC host Jim Cramer to talk about GE’s transformation into the world’s largest digital industrial company. Here are the highlights from the...
View ArticleLights, Electricity, Action: When Ronald Reagan Hosted “General Electric...
In 2015, the National Geographic Channel launched a new television series called “Breakthrough,” focusing on scientific discovery. The series was developed by the channel and GE, and produced by Oscar...
View Article3 Ways To Build Innovation Into Your Business: Ignore At Your Own Risk
Do your company’s leaders actually define what “innovation” means for them? Exploring the gap between aspiration and accomplishment is the difference between businesses that innovate successfully and...
View ArticleSlam Dunk: NBA Teamed Up With GE To Shine A Light On Stress Fractures
When America’s top basketball players took to the court for the 66th NBA All-Star Game last weekend in New Orleans, some of them had reached the pinnacle of their profession after overcoming injuries,...
View ArticleA Pinky Promise: Even The Most Advanced Machines Didn’t Prepare This Doctor...
When women visit Jin-Chung Shih, it’s almost always because their doctor suspects there’s a problem with the pregnancy. Shih runs the labor ward at National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei, and a...
View ArticleThis Is What We Call A Smart Car: Talking Batteries Will Help EVs Find Their...
Electric carmakers have spent more than a century searching for a way to make their vehicles truly competitive. It never occurred to them to ask the batteries.“Since Edison’s time, inventors have...
View ArticleCompanies Should Ask: Do We Actually Value Diversity Or Are We Just Paying It...
Project Include started with eight women in tech who wanted to move diversity forward by having hard conversations. Co-founder Ellen Pao describes the group’s suggestions for improvement and which...
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