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The Right Stuff: GE Tech Has Been at the Launch Pad since the Dawn of Space Flight

September 04, 2013
Humans have been sending objects and each other to space for close to 50 years. GE technology has been near the launch pad since the beginning. On March 17, 1958, for example, a GE-powered Vanguard rocket blasted the Vanguard 1 satellite to space. That probe is today the oldest man-made object in space. (The first two Russian Sputniks and the U.S. Explorer 1 that preceded it fell back to earth decades ago.)
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Mother of Invention: Sixty Years Ago, Pat Leary Helped Build GE’s First Supersonic Jet Engine

May 14, 2012
The week before Mother’s Day, Mark Leary called his mom, Patricia. Mark, who works on GE’s new GEnx engines, has been an engineer at GE Aviation for almost 30 years. Six decades ago, Patricia, who is 83 and the mother of six, helped develop GE’s first jet engines. She still keeps tabs on them. “I look at the pictures of the engines today and they don’t look like anything the engines then,” Patricia said. “I’m sure some of [your] engines are still flying across the country,” said her son.

The Hard Road to Frankfurt: New Lufthansa Flight Caps Epic GEnx Journey

May 03, 2012
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Airlines have been queuing up for GE Aviation’s GEnx jet engines for many reasons. The engines are thrifty with fuel, quiet, and so efficient that jumping a dozen time zones threatens to become a routine. Just two days ago, Lufthansa flew the first GEnx-powered Boeing 747-8 passenger jet from Seattle to Frankfurt.

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Crowdsourcing for Humvees

April 05, 2012
Early last year, the U.S. military’s high-tech research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), tapped an online community of designers and car enthusiasts to whip up from scratch a fully deployable military vehicle.
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“We Pulled Out All the Stops:” GE to Open New Louisville Plant, Second in the City in Two Months

March 19, 2012
Scott Latham spent 35 years working at GE’s Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky. “Thirty-four of those years were spent phasing out products,” the plant manager says.
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Get a Load of This: The Humble Beginnings of the Bobcat Company

March 12, 2012
Eddie Velo was a Minnesota turkey farmer with a big headache. His birds produced a lot of manure, tons of it. Workers used pitchforks to clear the stuff out of Velo’s barns, but few could keep at it for very long. He needed a machine that could do the job.
Two local entrepreneurial blacksmiths, brothers Cyril and Louis Keller, said they would help. They made him a light and agile loader that could get around poles and in and out of corners. It did the trick, and a lot more.
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