CHICAGO -- After a slow start resulting from a harsh winter and cold spring, the recreational marine industry is experiencing accelerated growth, says GE Capital, Commercial Distribution Finance (CDF). Retail and wholesale sales are up versus a year ago in the U.S., and the industry is on track to reach the 8% growth in retail dollar sales originally forecast in February by CDF at the Miami Boat Show.
This Electron Gun Builds Jet Engines
This Electron Gun Builds Jet Engines
Engineers at the Italian aerospace company Avio have developed a breakthrough process for 3D printing light-weight metal blades for jet engine turbines.
The method builds the blades from a titanium powder fused with a beam of electrons accelerated by a 3-kilowatt electron gun.
Fighting Cancer in Ethiopia
Fighting Cancer in Ethiopia
Txch This Week: Internet Chatter Spots An Epidemic
Txch This Week: Internet Chatter Spots An Epidemic
How can great musicians seem to do the impossible?
How can great musicians seem to do the impossible?
Even old jokes can have a scientific basis in fact.
You know the one about the tourist who stops a native New Yorker on the street and asks, “Excuse me sir, but how do you get to Carnegie Hall?”
"Practice, practice, practice."
Trawling for Big Insight in the 'Industrial Data Lake'
Trawling for Big Insight in the 'Industrial Data Lake'
You'd need to hide yourself under a pretty large rock to avoid hearing about Big Data these days. From NASA to Netflix, organizations of all sorts and sizes are taking advantage of larger-than-life data sets to power everything from lunar modeling to color-pattern analysis. But many companies remain behind the curve --- not due to a lack of data, but the absence of an efficient system to gather and analyze it all.
Come Baseball-Size Hail and 800 Gallons of Water: Where Jet Engines Endure Agony Before They Can Fly
Come Baseball-Size Hail and 800 Gallons of Water: Where Jet Engines Endure Agony Before They Can Fly
Crews at GE Aviation's jet engine boot camp in Peebles, Ohio, feed some 800 gallons of water every minute into the maw of a GEnx engine during a water ingestion test. The test is just one of many trials jet engines must endure to win an FAA certification.
New Technique Lets Scientists See Through Whole Organisms by...
New Technique Lets Scientists See Through Whole Organisms by...
A 3-D visualization of fluorescently-labeled brain cells within an intact brain tissue. A whole-body clearing and staining method lets researchers make an organism's tissues transparent.
The Quality of GE Researchers...and Why That's So Important
The Quality of GE Researchers...and Why That's So Important
GE Global Research asked some of our interns to share why they wanted to work here and what they've learned during their experience. This is the second in a series of intern blogs. Here's what Dan Cadel had to say...
GE is a big company. But at Global Research, it doesn't feel that way.