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Thanks For The Memories: Norman Rockwell’s Paintings Shed Light On Thanksgiving And The History Of Electric Illumination In America

Tomas Kellner
November 24, 2015
Although painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell wasn’t a founding father, there are few things more American than his art. From 1916 until 1963, he re-created scenes from everyday life on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post, back then the most widely circulated magazine in the U.S. Throughout his career, Rockwell painted American presidents, and his work now decorates hallways inside the White House.
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GE Lighting: Intelligent LED Lighting

August 12, 2015

GE Lighting: Intelligent LED Lighting
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How smart is your street light?

June 25, 2015
 

The speed of light: Vivid 2015 showed the pace of innovation in creative lighting. In the practical space, GE is accelerating the deployment of intelligent lighting systems that use existing infrastructure for the greater civic good.Image Source: Vivid Sydney
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Lighting the Way — 3 Paths to Intelligent Environments

May 06, 2015

Lighting is no longer just about seeing, but about sensing and connecting to create a brighter environment — in cities, shops and at home.

 

Harnessing the power of light has been an obsession of humankind since the discovery of fire. Better lighting lets people work more productively, shop more conveniently and feel safer at home.
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Fast and Luminous: These Lights are So Bright, They Could Show You the Quickest Way Around Town

April 21, 2015
For every showing of “A Streetcar Named Desire” in a big city, there’s a street packed with traffic on the way to the theater. Let’s face it, large urban centers may have culture and opportunity on their side, but they come with irksome baggage like congestion, air pollution and the lack of parking.
That baggage is getting heavier. Although half of the world’s population already lives in cities, the U.N. estimates that the number will spill over the 50 percent mark and hit 5 billion by 2030.
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How LED Is Lighting the Way Toward Indoor Farming

December 16, 2014
A warehouse full of lettuce might not be the first place you would expect to find the next Industrial Revolution. But follow the LED lights and you’ll discover a glimpse of the future of agriculture — industrial-scale, indoor farming.
 

Advances in LED technology are helping to create an environment where vegetables can be produced at scale for maximum impact — with higher yields and shorter grow cycles, no matter what climate.
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A light bulb moment for the City of Sydney

November 24, 2014
Life after dark in inner-city Sydney has become more sustainable, thanks to introduction of the City of Sydney’s smart power usage program. In just under three years, the council has reduced energy use by more than 34 per cent, creating more than $370,000 in savings.
How? Well it’s pretty simple really. By changing some light bulbs.
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LED Nobel Illuminates Pioneering GE Research

October 12, 2014
Last October, the biologist and former GE Healthcare chief scientist James Rothman received the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for solving the mystery of how cells shuttle molecules of insulin and other substances to the right place in the body. This year, two other former GE scientists looking for new sources of light, Bob Hall and Nick Holonyak Jr., almost felt the glow of a Nobel themselves.

He Sees The Light: Gary Allen’s TED Talk Illuminates the Future of Light

June 13, 2013

GE engineer, inventor and physicist Gary Allen has spent the last 25 years blazing a trail to a better light. He says that we are on the cusp of a lighting revolution that will lead to nearly perfect illumination. “Lighting is becoming almost everything we ever wanted it to be, and even things we never imagined,” Allen says.

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Meet Mr. Christmas Tree: GE’s Jim Riccio Has Been Testing Designs for the National Christmas Tree for the Last 15 Years

December 28, 2012
Every fall for the past 15 years, before the President and the First Family turn on the National Christmas tree in President’s Park outside the White House, Jim Riccio has strung thousands of Christmas lights on a nearly identical spruce outside GE’s headquarters in Fairfield, Connecticut. “The design is the same as the one in DC,” Riccio says. “It’s as close as you can get to an exact duplicate.”
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