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77 unusual facts about General Electric


502d Bombardment Group

These aircraft were actually stripped-down versions of the normal B-29, bereft of the General Electric gun system and a variety of other components, in order to save weight and increase bomb-carrying capacity.

Akron Wingfoots

In the late 1930s, Goodyear, Firestone, General Electric, and other companies with similar Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Elite teams decided to form the National Basketball League (NBL) to showcase their teams.

Alana DeLong

DeLong also holds the distinction of being the first female marketing manager with General Electric in Canada.

Alasdair Morgan

From 1980-4, he was a Systems Analyst at GE and a Computer Systems Team Leader at Fife Regional Council from 1984-6, moving to Lothian Regional Council in 1986, and West Lothian Council in 1996.

Aurunci Mountains

The Garigliano Nuclear Power Plant was constructed from 1959 to 1963 by General Electric on the Garigliano River, the water of which they used for cooling, on the border of the Monti Aurunci.

Bank Services Billing Standard

According to TWIST, Denmark's Danske Bank has become the first European bank to use its bank billing standard to deliver detailed information to corporate treasurers and wholesale clients.The bank is using the Twist BSB standard for the electronic transmission of information relating to bank charges to General Electric (GE).

Boulwarism

Boulwarism is a negotiation tactic named after General Electric's former vice president Lemuel Boulware, who pioneered the strategy.

Capital lending

In the cases of companies like GM and General Electric the financial subsidiaries have become very large businesses in their own right.

Carlton Forge Works

Unlike other forge shops, Carlton makes high quality forgings for major customers such as General Electric, United Technologies (Pratt & Whitney), Honeywell International, Rolls-Royce, Volvo Aero, MTU, Mitsubishi, Samsung, and other smaller companies.

Cavan Huang

He works with clients such as; Canadian International Autoshow; CNN; General Electric, Rogers Sportsnet; Time Warner; and Toshiba.

David W. Rivkin

Mr. Rivkin has represented both domestic and international corporations in addition to high-profile individuals, including Occidental Petroleum Corporation, General Electric, ExxonMobil, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hyundai Heavy Industries Co.

Debra Chasnoff

This film targeted General Electric (GE), the multinational military corporation, proprietor of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), and a producer of components for nuclear weapons 10.

Durgapur Thermal Power Station

U#3 has ABL make boilers and GE make turbine-generators, while U#4 has boiler, turbine and generator are of BHEL make.

Economy of Bihar

General Electric Co. (GE) and Electro Motive Diesel Inc. (EMD) will compete for the second contract—to build and supply 1,000 diesel train engines for the national transporter.

El Taref

General Electric and Iberdrola are building a power station in El Taref, beginning in mid-2008, a project which will increase Algeria's

Erin Li

In addition to To the Bone, Li has also directed a short documentary entitled "Catching the Invisible Light" for the General Electric "Focus Forward" Short Documentary Initiative, which was a Semi-Finalist in the competition.

Fallout and Follow Me

It presents companies such as Rio Tinto, Westinghouse and General Electric as characters as they go through several key moments in the history of uranium mining in Australia and other countries, such as the swindling of Australian, Canadian and South African governments in order to mine uranium, the 1961 court martial, and the introduction of the Ranger Uranium Mine enquiry report.

Film chain

General Electric also made film chains, both in B&W and color; among its color film cameras were the PE-24 and PE-240, both of which used four vidicon tubes (designated as "4-V").

Foster Hewitt

Hewitt developed an early interest in the radio and as a teenager accompanied his father, W. A. Hewitt, on a trip to Detroit, Michigan to see a demonstration of radio technology sponsored by General Electric.

General Electric/Rolls-Royce F136

The GE/RR Fighter Engine Team was a co-operation between GE Aviation in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States (60% share) and Rolls-Royce in Bristol, United Kingdom and Indianapolis, Indiana, USA (40% share).

All early F-35s were to be powered by the Pratt & Whitney F135 but it was planned that engine contracts would be competitively tendered from Lot 6 onward.

Citing the Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009, the GE Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team submitted an unsolicited fixed-price offer for the F136 to the Pentagon on 28 September 2009.

On 21 July 2004, the F136 began full engine runs at GE's Evendale, Ohio facility.

In August 2005, the United States Department of Defense awarded the GE and Rolls-Royce team a $2.4 billion contract to develop its F136 engine.

Gilliam County, Oregon

The wind farm is being built by Caithness Energy using General Electric (GE) 2.5 MW wind turbines, and it will supply electricity to Southern California Edison.

Giorgio La Pira

The company, later renamed Nuovo Pignone, is still in operation currently as a division of General Electric.

Hajdúböszörmény

One more recent cause of unemployment was the downsizing of the General Electric Tungsram plant (due to new economic options the company was exploring in China).

Hall Park, Oklahoma

Ronald Reagan, then a spokesman for General Electric, visited Hall Park upon its opening and was bestowed an honorary mayorship.

Hamad Amar

Amar was instrumental in plans for a subsidiary of General Electric to install wind turbines in northern Israel, citing the benefits from clean energy and new jobs.

Hochschule Mittweida

Hired as a testing engineer at General Electric, he developed the jet-engine J-79 and led the company's aircraft engine division (which today is called GE Aviation) as vice president for about 16 years.

In the King of Prussia

The group of anti-war activists were charged with the September 1980 destruction of nose cones designed for nuclear warheads at the Re-Entry Division of the General Electric Space Technology Center in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

International Solid-State Circuits Conference

The first conference consisted of papers from six organizations: Bell Telephone Laboratories, General Electric, RCA, Philco, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania.

Irving Hale

Hale pursued studies in electrical engineering following his commission as a second lieutenant, but eventually resigned from the regular army to take a position with General Electric.

Irving Langmuir House

The Irving Langmuir House was the home of physicist-chemist Irving Langmuir, winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize during his research career with General Electric.

John Walson

Walson, owner of a Mahanoy City General Electric appliance store, needed to solve problems receiving signals from Philadelphia television stations, which were blocked by the mountains surrounding the town.

Kinjiro Okabe

He had become very interested in the magnetron, built and named by Albert W. Hull at General Electric in 1921.

Laurence Tribe

Tribe represented General Electric in its defense against its liability under Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act ("Superfund"), in which GE and Tribe unsuccessfully argued that the act unconstitutionally violated General Electric's due process rights.

Linda Garcia Cubero

She went to work for General Electric Aerospace and by 1991 was working as the company's senior systems engineer.

Lorne Argyle Campbell

In 1891, he was hired by Canadian General Electric; he became chief engineer for the company in 1896.

Microgadus tomcod

After General Electric dumped polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the Hudson River from 1947 through 1976, tomcod living in the river were found to have evolved an increased resistance to the compound's toxic effects.

Microwave Massacre

To his horror, he discovers his wife has bought an unusually large Major Electric microwave oven, which makes the meals worse in half the time.

National Negro Labor Council

The organization led job campaigns against companies such as Sears-Roebuck, Ford Motor Company, General Electric and others.

Niut Range

But the hydroelectric potential of the Homathko Canyon are still on the books and are to be developed as run-of-the-river project by Plutonic Power, a subsidiary of General Electric.

Oklaunion, Texas

Since 1984 there has been a back-to-back HVDC station at Oklaunion which was built by General Electric.

Paço de Arcos

Paço de Arcos is where Quinta da Fonte is located, one of the biggest office parks in Europe, being the home of companies such as General Electric, Hewlett Packard, Intel, among others.

Pallophotophone

The pallophotophone (also known as the RCA Photophone) was an audio recording device developed by General Electric researcher Charles Hoxie ca.

Parvez Butt

Butt was part of the Pakistani delegation that led to a successful agreement with General Electric to supply country's first CANDU type-nuclear reactor, under the name of Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP).

Pramod Bhasin

Pramod started GE Capital International Services (GECIS) in 1997 as the in-house BPO division of General Electric (GE) when K.P. Singh convinced Jack Welch, the former CEO of GE, to outsource certain services to India at Gurgaon.

Public transport in Manila

Blue and orange-painted General Electric locomotives attached with Commex or Metrotren cars of the same colors can be seen especially by those driving on the South Luzon Expressway.

R. K. Baliga

While working in the Doctoral Program as Indian Institute of Science Merit scholar he was invited by General Electric to work in their factories in USA.

Rail transport in Libya

On 10 June 2007 a contract was signed with American General Electric Co. for supply of locomotives and training of Libyan nationals in operational and maintenance work.

Railway electrification in the Soviet Union

The original fleet of eight electric locomotives was imported from the United States and were made by General Electric (GE).

Ray Scapinello

During the late 60's Scapinello joined the Guelph Referees Association and began officiating games for them while he was working for General Electric.

Ron Bowden

He was born in Sydney, and studied at PMG Engineering College and Sydney Technical College, before spending time in the United States studying at the General Electric Executive Staff College.

Roxie Collie Laybourne

In addition to her employers, Laybourne's expertise aided the Federal Aviation Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, General Electric, the National Transportation Safety Board, Pratt and Whitney, and Rolls-Royce.

Salkhit

Clean Energy, a unit of Newcom Group built the US$122 million "Salkhit Wind Farm" in the region using GE wind turbines.

Saul Tepper

Additionally, his illustrations appeared in advertising for major companies such as General Electric, Coca-Cola, General Motors, Mobil and Texaco.

Scalable Inman Flash Replacement

sIFR has been used on a variety of well-known web pages, such as those of GE, Nike and Red Hat.

Schenectady Armory

Unlike other armories built in New York during the Great Depression, Schenectady's was located in the core of the city, near the hotel, the General Electric plant a quarter-mile (400 m) away, and businesses that had flocked to Erie Boulevard, the recently filled former route of the Erie Canal.

SEFOR

It was privately operated by General Electric and funded by the United States government through the Southwest Atomic Energy Associates, a nonprofit consortium formed by 17 power companies of the Southwest Power Pool and European nuclear agencies.

Shadow mask

Another contender was General Electric's Penetron, which used three stacked layers of phosphor and attempted to change the power of the electron beam to write to the correct one.

Sharon Denise Dixon

Prior to entering politics, Dixon worked in various capacities for Cook County Hospital, American Airlines, General Electric, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and Ada S. McKinley Community Services.

Squawk Australia

The program was initially broadcast from a camera position in the General Electric offices near the Sydney Harbour Bridge as an interim measure.

Sue Herera

In 1989, General Electric's CEO Jack Welch hired her to work at NBC as one of the founding members of the financial television network CNBC launched on April 17, and as an anchor.

Sundance, Manitoba

Sundance was a community near the Nelson River in Northern Manitoba that was constructed starting in 1975 to house the workers (and families) of the Limestone Dam project, who were employees of Manitoba Hydro, GE and other companies.

The Best Time of Your Life

General Electric, the sponsor of the Carousel of Progress, commissioned a new theme song, one to focus more on the here-and-now than on tomorrow, and the Sherman Brothers penned "The Best Time of Your Life.

The Glorious Fourth

1974 also marked the return of the Shermans to Disney to write "The Best Time Of Your Life" which was a replacement song for the General Electric pavilion's "There's A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" featured in America Sings at Disneyland and Disneyworld.

The Slow Mo Guys

In January 2014, in collaboration with GE Global Research, the R&D division of General Electric, they released a video showcasing the company's latest innovations, including superhydrophobic surfaces and how magnetic nanoparticles behave like liquid magnets.

Thomas E. Cooper

Upon leaving government service in 1987, Cooper joined General Electric as an executive.

Thomas Limberger

In January 2001 he left Fresenius Medical Care AG and took a position on the management board of General Electric Germany.

Tom Bannon

Bannon was an umpire in the New England League for several years afterwards and then worked in the supply department for the General Electric Company.

Toubon Law

In 2006 the French subsidiary of the US company General Electric Medical Systems was fined €500,000 plus an ongoing fine of €20,000 per day for not complying with the Toubon law.

Utah Construction Company

The Wattis Brothers original $8,000 investment, in 1900, grew to $478 million after the 1976 acquisition by the General Electric company.

The company merged with the General Electric company in 1976 for a value of over $2.2 billion, the largest corporate merger in history at that time.

Virginia State Route 419

SR 419 crosses over Norfolk Southern's Christiansburg and Whitethorne district rail lines and parallels a rail spur through an industrial area that contains a General Electric facility.

Walka Water Works

What was described as a "package power plant" was bought from General Electric and imported from America.

William R. Robinson

In 1986, RCA Corp. was acquired by General Electric (GE) in what was at that time the largest non-oil merger in history.


Discovery Kids on NBC

Meanwhile, in 2004, NBC became a subsidiary of NBC Universal, when its parent company, General Electric, acquired 80% of Vivendi Universal Entertainment from Vivendi.

Elscint

The VDP1 product was displayed in trade show in Los Angeles and drew the attention of General Electric, the world leader in medical imaging; and in 1971, Elscint and General Electric signed an exclusive distribution agreement in North America.

Frog Design Inc.

More recently, frog has worked for clients such as GE, Microsoft, Siemens, Intel, Lufthansa, HP, and UNICEF.

Horace Field Parshall

Born in the USA he worked for General Electric, later moving to the United Kingdom, where he was involved in the installation of a number of electrical schemes including the Central London Railway and The Lancashire Electric Power Company becoming a director of both.

Igor Ansoff

He has consulted with hundreds of multinational corporations including, Philips, General Electric, Gulf, IBM, Sterling and Westinghouse.

International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore

IIIT-B is in Electronics City, Bangalore, which is one of India's largest electronic industrial parks and which houses major electronics and IT corporations that include Infosys, Wipro, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, and Flextronics, amongst others.

James Hillier

(Note: RCA Laboratories, located in Princeton, NJ, became independent of RCA as a result of the corporate take-over by General Electric in 1986 and became Sarnoff Corporation, a subsidiary of SRI International through 2011, when it was absorbed by SRI.) Hillier spent many years refining the electron microscope and marketing it to research laboratories and universities, receiving a total of 41 patents for devices and processes.

Jean E. Sammet

The meeting involved 25 engineers, programmers, marketing representatives, and salesmen who were involved with the UNIVAC, as well as representatives from users such as General Electric, Arthur Andersen, and the U.S. Census.

Marotta

Early manufacturing sub-contracts for prime contractors such as General Electric Corporation and RCA enabled Marotta to gain experience in what was to become a particular area of expertise – precision valves and machined components for the rocket and guided missile industry.

Maury Povich

In 1998 the show was taken over by Studios USA (then a division of USA Networks, later renamed Universal Television after being sold to Vivendi Universal; and NBC Universal Television after VU Entertainment was sold to NBC owner General Electric).

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

One of the early focuses of Project MAC would be the development of a successor to CTSS, Multics, which was to be the first high availability computer system, developed as a part of an industry consortium including General Electric and Bell Laboratories.

Project Vanguard

Encouraged by conversations between Richard W. Porter of General Electric and Alan T. Waterman, Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), Rosen on November 27, 1954 completed a report describing the potential value of launching an earth satellite.

Rafael Carmoega

As a private architect he produced the designs for the residences of Secundino Lozana (El Cortijo) in Barranquitas and Dionisio Trigo in Santurce, the General Electric store in San Juan, Colegio San José in Río Piedras and the Casino de Puerto Rico in El Condado.

Reverse auction

Pioneer of online reverse auctions, FreeMarkets, was founded in 1995 by former McKinsey consultant and General Electric executive Glen Meakem after he failed to find internal backing for the idea of a reverse auction division at General Electric.

Robert Loring

With offices in Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY, the partners have worked on over $15 billion in transactions with corporations such as AT&T, BASF, Bayer, General Electric, Hays PLC, IBM, Lucent, Motorola, Universal Group and Williams Communications.

The Timothy Plan

Among the better known companies that don't meet the plan's guidelines are General Electric, The Coca-Cola Company, Microsoft, Starbucks, Time Warner and Walt Disney Company.

Thomson-Houston Electric Company

Thomson-Houston later merged with the Edison General Electric Company of Schenectady, New York, to form the General Electric Company in 1892, with plants in Lynn and Schenectady, both of which remain to this day as the two original GE factories.

Three-dimensional quartz phenolic

A licence to manufacture 3DQP in the US was acquired from the British Government and production was undertaken by AVCO, one of the two suppliers of US RV's, the other being General Electric.

Uno Lamm

Lamm was appointed by ASEA in 1961 to work with General Electric on the Pacific DC Intertie project, which combined long AC and HVDC transmission systems to move electrical energy from the hydroelectric generators of the Pacific Northwest to consumers in southern California.

WLTJ

Included were systems from 14 competitors, such as Crosley, Halstead, EMI, Zenith Electronics Corporation and General Electric.