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History

100 Tahun Bercerita: Dari Vonnegut & Reagan Hingga GE Reports, GE Rayakan Seabad Bercerita

December 14, 2021

Cheser Lang, editor di Syracuse News Standard, sedang duduk di kursi kerjanya sambil memikirkan tentang GE. Hatinya gelisah. Sebagai seorang editor untuk edisi mingguan di koran tersebut, tugas Lang adalah mencari berita terkait industri yang bagus. Hanya sedikit perusahaan pada saat itu – ketika dia menjadi editor di tahun 1917 – yang bobot dan daya tariknya sama seperti GE. Tapi di sinilah masalahnya.

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100 Years Of Stories: From Vonnegut & Reagan To GE Reports, GE Celebrates Its Storytelling Centennial

Tomas Kellner
October 01, 2021

Chester Lang, editor of the Syracuse News Standard, was sitting at his desk and thinking about GE. He was not happy. It was Lang’s job as the paper’s Sunday editor to find good industry stories, and few companies at the time — he became editor in 1917 — were as important and interesting as GE. But there was a problem. “When I wrote General Electric for a story, the results were most disappointing,” he later lamented, complaining about getting “a ‘story’ written in commercial language,” among other transgressions.

Philippines

Bring It On: High Winds, A Volcano And A Pandemic Didn’t Stop These Engineers From Getting The Job Done

September 23, 2020
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The three GE engineers were all worrying about the same thing: Would the crane and the generator arrive at the same time? Ganesh Potharaju, Guy Stoeckel and Charlie Clement had spent months planning, down to the minute, how to swap out a 30-year-old steam-powered generator for a brand-new one at the Calaca power station on Luzon, the largest and most populous island in the Philippines.

Power

Bring It On: High Winds, A Volcano And A Pandemic Didn’t Stop These Engineers From Getting The Job Done

Peter C. Beller
August 24, 2020
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The three GE engineers were all worrying about the same thing: Would the crane and the generator arrive at the same time? Ganesh Potharaju, Guy Stoeckel and Charlie Clement had spent months planning, down to the minute, how to swap out a 30-year-old steam-powered generator for a brand-new one at the Calaca power station on Luzon, the largest and most populous island in the Philippines.

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From Memphis Belle to The Cold Blue: The B-17 and the Treasure of WWII Archival Footage

Jay Stowe
February 14, 2020
The Second World War can claim a number of firsts—the vast majority of which live in infamy to this day. But being the first major war documented exhaustively on film has an occasional upside. Case in point: 15 hours of raw color footage revealing what it was really like to be a crewman on a B-17 Flying Fortress in the skies over Europe.
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culture

The Art of Science: Inside The Decades-Old Love Affair Between Artists And GE

Liz Wishaw
October 19, 2019
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 for a GE calendar.
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History

Playing Detective: How GE Imaging Technology Helped Crack 5 Ancient Mysteries

Tomas Kellner
March 22, 2019

First impressions can be misleading. In 1895, when Wilhelm Roentgen trained his cathode ray at his wife’s hand and took what may have been the world’s first human X-ray, she cried out, “I have seen my death!” — or so the story goes.

Aerospace

Air Born: How A Secret World War I Project Launched GE's Aviation Business

Tomas Kellner
November 14, 2018
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Last weekend, the world remembered 100 years since the end of World War I, a conflict that changed the map of Europe and left an estimated 17 million people dead. But amid its devastation and disruption, the war also accelerated the rise of new industries like aviation.

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History

The Sword In The Virtual Stone: These Eyes Can Peer 1,600 Years Into The Past

October 10, 2017
In 2012, Berlin conservator Katrin Lück brought a tiny, severely corroded lead scroll to GE’s Technical Solutions Center in the town of Wunstorf in northern Germany.
Lück believed that the precious, 1,600-year-old artifact, which measured just 3.6 centimeters long and 1.5 centimeters wide, contained scriptures in Mandaic — the language of an ancient gnostic religion dating back to Christ's birth. She wanted to read the verse, but unrolling the scroll would destroy it.

Stranger Things: The Curious Case Of Watson Amps, Wired Holmes And Theodor Geisel’s GE Ad

Dmitry Sheynin
September 08, 2017
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In the years before he became the beloved Dr. Seuss, children’s author Theodor Geisel toiled away as an adman, creating pitches for oil companies, insecticide purveyors and “G-E.” That's how we got The Strange Case of Adlebert Blump in the “G-E Merchandiser,” a publication for prospective retailers of GE’s wares.

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