GE history
To Make the Important Interesting: A Look Back at a Century of Advertising at GE
This fall, TV viewers witnessed an impressive vision of continuity through change.
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Innovation Never Ends: As GE Turns 131, the Company’s Creative Minds Haven’t Run Short on Big Ideas
In 1876, a 28-year-old Thomas Edison came up with what may be his most underrated innovation: a laboratory and machine shop inside a single two-story building in Menlo Park, New Jersey. It’s a place he called his “Invention Factory,” and one that history calls the first R&D facility in the world. While the Menlo Park model was soon adopted by governments, universities, and rival companies, its DNA proved as distinct as it was world-changing, and it led to the birth of GE in Schenectady, New York, in April 1892.
GE history
‘The Initials of a Friend’: A History Of GE’s Iconic Monogram Logo
Last fall, GE announced plans to become three independent and publicly traded businesses focusing on healthcare, energy, and aviation.* Last week, the company unveiled their names: GE HealthCare, GE Vernova, and GE Aerospace. Channeling 130 years of innovation, all three industry leaders will retain the GE name and the company’s famous round logo, which spells its initials and dates back to the time of Thomas Edison.
History
100 Years Of Stories: From Vonnegut & Reagan To GE Reports, GE Celebrates Its Storytelling Centennial
Chester Lang, editor of the Syracuse News Standard, was sitting at his desk and thinking about GE. He was not happy. It was Lang’s job as the paper’s Sunday editor to find good industry stories, and few companies at the time — he became editor in 1917 — were as important and interesting as GE. But there was a problem. “When I wrote General Electric for a story, the results were most disappointing,” he later lamented, complaining about getting “a ‘story’ written in commercial language,” among other transgressions.
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1,093 Light Bulb Moments: The Many Inventions From The Wizard of Menlo Park
Not every Thomas Edison invention turned to gold. In 1893, after he sold his stake in General Electric, Edison invested the money in an enterprise designed to supply iron ore to U.S. steelmakers. As usual, paying attention to every detail, he “designed his own studded crushers that enabled the use of larger boulders lifted by the world’s largest steam shovel,” according to InSight, a magazine published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Innovation
Bray’s Law: How One Physicist Cleared The Way For GE Research
It was summer 2018, and Stephen Bush was starting to worry. Months of research were about to go down the drain if he couldn’t convince a room of his colleagues that quantum mechanics was the future of cryptography.
Innovation
Cat Videos From The Dog House: How Thomas Edison Helped Invent The Motion Picture Industry
Thanksgiving
Endless Feast: GE Workers’ Thanksgiving Contributions, From Lamps And Turkey-Carving Tools To Squash Disposal
Though it’s long since entered the canon of generic American iconography, there’s more to Norman Rockwell’s famous Thanksgiving painting than meets the eye — as suggested by its title, “Freedom From Want.” Rockwell was inspired to create the artwork by Franklin D.
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Creative Force: Claudia Meyer Marries Art And Industry
