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AT-AT Boy! GE’s Walking Truck Blends Star Wars with Jules Verne

March 22, 2014
In the mid 1960s, GE engineers developed the Pedipulator, a military “walking truck." They first tested the quadroped in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1962, 18 years before George Lucas’s AT-AT walkers debuted on the big screen.
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The Story Behind the Real ‘Iron Man’ Suit

November 23, 2010
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 movies all in production, we thought we take a look in the vault at GE’s own stab at super-strength.
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