History around Schenectady

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Friday, September 21, 2018

GENERAL ELECTRIC RADIO AND RADAR WILL GUARD AND GUIDE THEIR FLIGHT


From the August, 1943 issue of Country Gentleman Magazine.

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And this shall be our Victory:

From the May, 1943 issue of Country Gentleman Magazine.

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Monday, September 17, 2018

A long handclasp ... on a short wave


From the February, 1943 issue of Country Gentleman Magazine.

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Friday, February 17, 2017

First Jet Air Mail Flight, June 22, 1946 (Commemorative Cover)

ID# 7,155

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Wednesday, July 06, 2016

Ten million children need LIGHT CONDITIONING

From the August 28, 1937 issue of the Saturday Evening Post

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Tuesday, June 07, 2016

Your choice of three leaders in GENERAL ELECTRIC REFRIGERATORS

From the September 15, 1934 issue of the Saturday Evening Post

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Monday, June 06, 2016

They sang the song together...6,000 miles apart....

From the September 15, 1934 issue of the Saturday Evening Post

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Sunday, June 05, 2016

Have you a CHILD in SCHOOL?

From the September 15, 1934 issue of the Saturday Evening Post

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Saturday, June 04, 2016

HOW MAZDA LAMPS GOT THEIR NAME

From the May, 1937 issue of Child Life

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Friday, June 03, 2016

SAVE THAT TWINKLE!

From the May, 1937 issue of Child Life

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Monday, May 30, 2016

More and more you'll find the MONITOR TOP imitatde

From Cosmopolitan Magazine, September, 1930.

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Sunday, May 29, 2016

General Electric FM

From the December 21, 1942 issue of Broadcasting Magazine.

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Sunday, September 20, 2015

Bright Ideas Catch on Quickly

From the March 2, 1946 issue of the Saturday Evening Post.


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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

HE TRADES PUNCHES NOW WITH MATERIALS


The Story of Charlie Ream

IN THE LATE '30s, Charlie Ream held the title and crown of an Ohio Golden Gloves champion. Today he has exchanged that title for one of head of the Mechanical Section of the General Electric Works Laboratory at Fort Wayne, Indiana.

He’s concerned with physical testing of materials and development and design of special mechanical devices. He was trained at the Ohio State University to be an engineer as he had planned as a boy. Today he is stimulated by his high regard for his coworkers, who, he says, “from the bottom up are always willing to help.” He is convinced that anyone can succeed with General Electric because “there are enough round holes and enough square ones to be filled.” General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.

Charlie was born and reared in a small Ohio railroad community. Like his chemist-teacher brother, he tinkered with one of the town's first radios. In high school his hobbies were stamps, train and boat models, and photography. He won three major sports letters, but majored in mathematics.

At Ohio State, Football and intramural sports such as fencing and boxing were climaxed by his winning a Golden Gloves title. He Fought as a heavy- and light-heavyweight but took time to appear with a campus dramatic group before winning his Bachelor oi industrial Engineering degree in 1941.

After graduation, Charlie went with General Electric to work on machine selection in Lynn, Massachusetts. In Schenectady, he was enrolled in the Creative Engineering Program before being sent out on various assignments that took him to New York and Erie, Pennsylvania to work on problems and experiments.

Experience in General Electric plants in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in the Radio Receiver Division, and Schenectady, on an underwater object locator For the Navy, finally led to Fort Wayne and the diversified laboratory. His outside hobbies keep him, too occupied to play the seven radios that shore his room.

From the February, 1948 issue of Boy's Life.

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Sunday, January 01, 2012

Romance of a Great Factory

by Charles M. Ripley

A look inside the Schenectady, New York General Electric plant in 1919.



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Friday, May 21, 2010

The Sprague-General Electric System of Multiple Unit Control for Electric Trains

Another ad from the August 29, 1903 issued of Street Railway Journal.



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Sunday, May 16, 2010

General Electric Advertisements from 1903

From the August 29, 1903 issued of Street Railway Journal.

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Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Schenectady Railway #118 at GE Loop













Archive # 40.

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