General Electric Company
The General Electric Company (GEC) was a major British industrial conglomerate involved in consumer and defence electronics, communications, and engineering.It was originally founded in 1886 as G. Binswanger and Company as an electrical goods wholesaler based in London. It quickly adopted a then-unorthodox business model of supplying electrical components over the counter. In 1889, the business was incorporated as the General Electric Company Ltd, and became a public limited company 11 years later. During the 1890s and 1900s, the company heavily invested into electric lighting, a sector that would prove to be immensely profitable in the long term. The GEC was heavily impacted by the outbreak of the First World War, supplying various goods to the military, and thus becoming a major player in the electrical industry. In 1921, a new purpose-built company headquarters (Magnet House) was opened in Kingsway, London; two years later, GEC's industrial research laboratories at Wembley (later named the Hirst Research Centre) also opened. In the 1920s, the company was heavily involved in the creation and roll-out of Britain's National Grid.
During the Second World War, GEC made several significant contributions to the Allied war effort, such as the development of the cavity magnetron for radar, various advances in communications technology, and the mass production of valves, lamps, and lighting equipment. In 1961, GEC merged with Radio & Allied Industries. Throughout the mid-to-late 1960s, GEC's new managing director, Arnold Weinstock, sought to rationalise the British electrical industry and boost efficiency via a series of cut-backs and mergers that returned the company to profit. GEC acquired Associated Electrical Industries (AEI) in 1967, and merged with English Electric one year later. The company continued to expand via acquisitions; between 1979 and 1981, GEC acquired W & T Avery, ''Cincinnati Electronics'', and ''Picker Corporation''.
During the 1980s, the company was Britain's largest private employer with over 250,000 employees; becoming one of the first companies in the new FTSE 100 Index in 1984. It made profits in excess of £1 billion per year at its peak in the 1990s. In June 1998, GEC sold its share of the joint venture GEC-Alsthom on the Paris stock exchange. During December 1999, GEC's defence arm, Marconi Electronic Systems (MES), was sold to British Aerospace, forming BAE Systems. The rest of GEC, mainly telecommunications equipment manufacturing, continued as Marconi Communications. After buying several US telecoms manufacturers at the top of the market, losses following the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2001 led to the restructuring in 2003 of Marconi plc into Marconi Corporation plc. During 2005, the company failed to secure any part of BT's 21st Century Network (21CN) programme; that same year, Ericsson acquired the bulk of the company; what was left of the business was renamed Telent. Provided by Wikipedia
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STANDARD DESIGN CRITERIA
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NEUTRON AND PHOTON TRANSPORT PLANE, CYLINDER, SPHERE (DIGITAL COMPUTER PROGRAMS)
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Variable volume combustor with a conical liner support
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Method of forming a ceramic matrix composite and a ceramic matrix component
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Grid of the Future Quantification of Benefits from Flexible Energy Resources in Scenarios With Extra-High Penetration of Renewable Energy.
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Estimated performance of supersonic nuclear aircraft with six Pratt and Whitney indirect Cycle J-58 turbojet engines
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System for injecting fuel in a gas turbine combustor
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Transition duct assembly with modified trailing edge in turbine system
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Variable volume combustor with aerodynamic fuel flanges for nozzle mounting
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Orifice plate for controlling solids flow, methods of use thereof and articles comprising the same
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Gas reservoir and a method to supply gas to plasma tubes
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Oxy-fired boiler unit and method of operating the same
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Systems and methods for pressure and temperature measurement
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System and method for reducing combustion dynamics in a combustor
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Commercial-sector energy-consumption data-base-development project. Volume II. Survey of available energy use data
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Commercial-sector energy-consumption data-base-development project. Volume III. Analysis of energy consumption in office buildings
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THE TRANSFER OF URANYL NITRATE ACROSS THE WATER-TRIBUTYL PHOSPHATE INTERFACE
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Electrochemical cell structure and method of making the same
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