Notable Historic Innovations
- 1900: GE Industrial Research Laboratory is established
- 1902: Electric fan
- 1908: Tungsten light bulb filament
- 1910: First electric hotpoint range
- 1916: Gas-filled light bulb
- 1918: Record-capacity water wheel generator at Niagara Falls
- 1918: Trans-oceanic radio system
- 1920: Portable x-ray machine
- 1921: GE turbosupercharger engine helps an aircraft reach a record altitude
- 1921: Magnetron vacuum tube
- 1927: First television brought into the home
- 1941: First U.S. Jet Engine
- 1943: First auto-pilot system
- 1946: Cloud seeding developed
- 1949: The J49 jet engine is developed, which came to be the most produced jet engine in history
- 1962: Solid-state laser
- 1969: Key technologies in the first moon landing
- 1976: Computed Tomography (CT) scanner
- 1983: Signa Magnetic Resonance Imaging system (MRI)
- 2002: Popularization of wind turbines
- 2003: Fuel-efficient Evolution Series locomotive engine
- 2007: First 24 cylinder internal combustion engine
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