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Innovation Never Ends: As GE Turns 131, the Company’s Creative Minds Haven’t Run Short on Big Ideas

Chris Norris
April 13, 2023

In 1876, a 28-year-old Thomas Edison came up with what may be his most underrated innovation: a laboratory and machine shop inside a single two-story building in Menlo Park, New Jersey. It’s a place he called his “Invention Factory,” and one that history calls the first R&D facility in the world. While the Menlo Park model was soon adopted by governments, universities, and rival companies, its DNA proved as distinct as it was world-changing, and it led to the birth of GE in Schenectady, New York, in April 1892.

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The Big Picture: As GE Turns 129 Today, One Business Looks All The Way Back And Into The Future

Peter C. Beller
April 15, 2021
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Michael J. Barber didn’t have to look far afield to find his calling. He was just a senior in high school in Wisconsin in the 1970s when he landed an internship at GE Medical System, the forerunner of GE Healthcare. Over the next few years, as his internships and coursework expanded, he began working full time and finished his last two college courses at night to graduate. During the internship before his senior year of college, his colleagues at GE told him not to interview anywhere else and Barber listened.

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Year In Review: The Silver Anniversary Of An Aviation Giant And More Milestones

GE Reports Staff
March 17, 2021

2020 marked the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, the 50th year in which Earth Day was celebrated, a quarter-century since the release of the kids’ movie “Toy Story” and — for good measure — the 2,500th anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae. GE marked a few significant milestones as well; none featured Buzz Lightyear, but they did involve some pretty cool aviation technology.

 

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GE Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Its 6F Gas Turbine, Secures Two New Orders

August 13, 2019
  • GE’s 6F gas turbine offers superior reliability, flexibility, and performance across a diverse range of applications
  • The 6F installed base operates in 40+ countries for 50+ customers and there are now more than 200 6F gas turbine units in commercial operation globally
  • GE also announced two new 6F.03 orders with China’s Guangdong Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing Limited, and with China Huadian Corporation

BADEN, SWITZERLAND—August 13, 2019—GE (NYSE: GE) announced today that the company’s 6F gas turbine has

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