[BC] General Electric

[Glen Kippel]

AFAIK, GE still makes locomotive engines.  And then, there is the General
Electric Insurance Company, better known as GEICO.

On 12/30/06, Mark Humphrey <mark3xy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/29/06, PeterH5322 <peterh5322 at rattlebrain.com> wrote:
>
> > General Electric is the ONLY company which has ALWAYS been in the Dow 30
> > Industrials for as long as that important business index has existed.
> > Based upon that, General Electric is probably the most important single
> > company in this country's history.
>
> For those of you interested in GE's contributions to broadcast
> technology, a DVD is now available, which discusses the history of
> Electronics Park, the large plant along the Thruway (I-90) near
> Syracuse where transmitters, audio consoles, radios, and TV sets were
> made.  Info at:
>
> www.mmiclients.com/electronicspark/
>
> I recently contacted Steve Auyer, the GE retiree who narrated this
> program, and he shared some nice photos of early GE FM gear which I
> will post online soon.
>
> As some of you know, what remained of GE's broadcast equipment
> business in the '60s was sold to Harris, and the consumer electronics
> lines were also sold or moved to other plants.  The Electronics Park
> facility was sold to Lockheed Martin, which still uses a couple of the
> large buildings for radar systems manufacturing.
>
> Like RCA, the GE "brand" no longer has any material connection with
> the real General Electric when applied to low-end consumer products
> such as housewares.  Take a close look at the label on a modern-day
> "GE" iron, coffemaker, blender, etc. and you see it's actually a
> Wal-Mart POS made in China.   I find this a bit discomforting, but I
> guess "that's progress".
>
> Mark
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