Please visit these standalone sites for more information
GE Aerospace | GE Vernova | GE HealthCare
Speaking at the Energy 2020 summit in Washington D.C., GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt announced today that GE will invest an additional $10 billion in “ecomagination” research by 2020, to reach a…
“Monkeyshines” is very likely the first film shot in the United States. Movie pioneers William Heise and William K. L. Dickson made it for Edison Labs in 1889 or 1890.The pair worked…
In the movie Fitzcarraldo, a music-obsessed Irishman played by Klaus Kinski successfully lifts a 300-ton steamboat across a Peruvian mountain range to build an opera house in the jungle. A Peruvian…
Henry Ford was fond of saying that “nothing was particularly hard if you divided it into small jobs.” He followed his own advice, built world’s first assembly lines that cranked out 15 million Model…
If you are reading this on a railroad platform while waiting to board a train home for Thanksgiving, pay good attention to your train’s locomotive. In the early 1990s, engineers at GE…
Update: April 6, 2011: GE continues to monitor and respond to events in Japan following the unprecedented natural disasters and the events at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant. Working with our…
Like the faint rumble of a distant battle, the symbol AC/DC lives quietly on millions of power adapters and, more noisily, in the name of an Aussie hard rock band. A century ago, however, it…
Fortune magazine published this week “the definitive report card on corporate reputations” a.k.a. its World’s Most Admired Companies list. GE jumped to No. 10, up one spot from last year and five…
RainDance Technologies is developing new “liquid biopsy” systems using tiny droplets separated by oil to analyze DNA. Researchers using the technology are evaluating its ability to identify whether…
Tough love is one way to describe what Ray Staresina does to jet engines. Staresina is a “cell owner” at GE’s aviation boot camp deep in the woods outside Peebles, Ohio. His job is to expose new…