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Sphere of Turbulence: What’s Hiding Inside a Mysterious Orb at GE’s Jet Engine Boot Camp?

Hiding deep in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in southern Ohio is a boot camp for some of the world’s most powerful jet engines. The Peebles Test Operation is where GE subjects…

Aviaton

GE Opens Two New Jet Engine Plants for Next-Gen Aircrafts

David Joyce, president and CEO of GE Aviation, spent the last decade developing some of the world’s most advanced jet engines. His timing was perfect. Plane manufacturers estimate that the …

Thomas Edison

Pen Pal: How Edison’s Early Copy Machine Reinvented Tattooing

Thomas Edison received 1,093 patents during his lifetime for inventions that include the light bulb, the power plant, the modern cement kiln and the first movie camera. He even came up with the …

Chips Off the Old Block: Where Michelangelo Once Chiseled, GE Workers Build Engineering Marvels

For millennia artisans and craftsmen flocked to the coastal Tuscan town Carrara and scouted its famous marble quarries for the perfect stone. “Oh cursed a thousand times are the day and the hour…

Brilliant Machines

Service Economy: The Third Industrial Revolution Will Turn Customers into Designers

The first Industrial Revolution was about machines, the second about technology, and the third will take place inside the “Brilliant Factory,” says Christine Furstoss, global technology director at…

Walking Truck

The Story Behind the Real ‘Iron Man’ Suit

With Spiderman slinging onto Broadway this Sunday as the most expensive musical in history; the Green Hornet and Green Lantern soon to hit the big screen; and Iron Man 3, Captain America and Thor…

Pumping Iron: Can You Lift 1,500 Pounds?

In the 1960s, GE set out to create Hardiman, a mechanical exoskeleton that could give its user the ability to lift up to 1,500 pounds. Unfortunately, the suit’s size, weight, stability and power-…

Amtrak

Leaving L.A.: Who's Riding Amtrak’s Social Media Special?

Amtrak’s Texas Eagle train runs south from Chicago to San Antonio and then west to Los Angeles. In early March, it has picked up for the return journey a load of bloggers, entrepreneurs and…

ecomagination

Getting to the Bottom: GE on Track to Complete Hudson River Cleanup

GE is on track to finish one of the largest and most logistically complex environmental cleanups in U.S. history on a 40-mile stretch of the Hudson River.The company has removed nearly 2 million…

Innovation

Knowledge Transfer: The Doctor Will See You at the Bottom of the Sea. How Eclectic Ideas Fertilize Innovation across GE

Jeff Immelt, GE chairman and CEO, writes in the company’s 2013 Annual Report, which GE released today, about the benefits of looking at innovation with a broad lens.The theme of the Annual Report,…