GE Innovation Timeline Feature: History, Thomas Edison, inventions
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From Thomas Edison’s first commercially viable light bulb to the first X-ray machines, we’ve continued to innovate what has yet to be imagined. GE was there for the first walk on the moon. We created the first television network, the first man-made diamond and the first jet engine. This is imagination at work.
Big ideas deliver mankind into the Age of Industry.
GE makes history in the home and over the airwaves.
GE expands our horizons, in the air and around the world.
Helping out at home: New appliances and a new way to pay.
GE innovations help us see our world differently.
The scientists of GE turn their imagination to developing new materials and useful new processes.
Science fiction becomes science fact as GE helps put a man on the moon.
Sophisticated GE solutions meet more complex needs.
GE boldly leads the way online and around the world.
Online and around the world, the landscape of business transforms as emerging markets burst open.
The GE tradition of innovation picks up speed with economies of scale.
Dramatic discoveries quietly redefine our lives.