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The GE Brief – January 8, 2018

January 8, 2019 ENGINE OF PROGRESS It took more than a few nuts and bolts, but the world’s largest jet engine, the GE9X, has finally been attached to the wings of the world’s largest twin-engine…

Aerospace

The Grand Total: Boeing Pairs The World's Largest Twin-Engine Jet With The World's Largest Jet Engine From GE

Boeing just released the first pictures of the world’s largest twin-engine jet, the 777X, equipped with the world’s largest jet engine, the GE9X. The plane is scheduled for its maiden flight this…

The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

As we blast off into a brave new year, this week’s most notable scientific advances have us contemplating childbirth in space, ever more precise ways to look into the human heart, and artificial-…

The GE Brief – January 3, 2018

WHERE THE WARM WIND BLOWS With dunes that stretch for days and plenty of powerful breezes, deserts in the Middle East and North Africa should be oases for renewable wind power. But turbines trying to…

space

This News Will (Space) Rock You: NASA’s New Horizons Probe Snaps Photos Of The Most Distant Object Ever Visited By Human Spacecraft

Just after midnight on New Year’s Day, NASA scientists got an extra reason to pop the champagne — and it came shaped like a champagne bottle or, depending on your perspective, a bowling pin or a…

drones

Identified Flying Objects: GE, Partners Test Drone Collision Avoidance Systems In The Real World

The endeavor to get unmanned aircraft to coexist safely in the sky with planes and other “manned” flying vehicles took a significant first step recently as a group of researchers, engineers and…

Building a Better Wind Turbine - By Building a Better Team

You've probably never heard of Salzbergen, Germany. This picturesque town of approximately 8,000 inhabitants is located in Lower Saxony, 20 kilometers from the Dutch border. Whether you know it or…

Harnessing the Power of Water to Energize the Future

The Cradle of HydropowerNested within the Swiss Alps in the canton of Glarus is one of the world’s most advanced hydropower projects – a variable-speed pump storage plant that leverages the country’s…

Medical Imaging

A Passion Play: How Medical Imaging Helped Italian Conservators Resurrect A Long-Lost Painting Of Christ

“We need patients to be very still for imaging exams. It shouldn’t be a problem with this one,” radiologist Enzo Angeli joked last year as an unusual specimen was wheeled through the doors of his…

The GE Brief – December 20, 2018

HE’S GOT THE RIGHT STUFF Growing up, Jon Ohman knew he wanted to follow in the footsteps of test pilot Chuck Yeager, the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound. Yeager and…