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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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A Place In The Sun: This New York County Is Working To Source 100 Percent Of Its Power From Renewables By 2021

Fred Guterl
May 21, 2018

Kurt Vonnegut, who spent several years working as a GE publicist in Schenectady, New York, once blamed reviewers unfamiliar with the town for getting him pigeonholed as a science fiction writer. “I and my associates were engineers, physicists, chemists, and mathematicians.

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Green Day: GE Grabs Solar Panels And Shovels For Global Earth Day Celebration

April 26, 2017
Employees making steam turbines at GE Power in Schenectady, New York, recently realized they had an untapped energy resource outside their doorstep: a huge parking lot (see top image). So, in honor of Earth Day, they raised a metal canopy and covered the entire lot with 6,800 solar panels capable of generating 2.3 megawatts. They calculate this solar farm will generate enough power annually to cut electric utility bills at the research campus by 10 percent and save $2.5 million over 25 years.
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Living On The Edge But Playing It Safe: What Barefoot Water-Skiing And Factory Safety Have In Common

P D Olson
March 22, 2017
You’d think an environmental health and safety (EHS) expert would be overly cautious about the world around him, calculating every possible danger and wrapping family members in cotton wool. Not Kevin Kaiser. While he’s spent his career teaching GE employees to stay safe, when the workday is over and Kaiser pursues one of the most teeth-gnashing hobbies known to humanity: barefoot water-skiing. “It’s exhilarating,” he says from his home office in Charleston, South Carolina. “There’s more risk to it. You go faster.”
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