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Teenager Johnny Powers learns about the importance of electricity to manufacturing and the contribution of manufacturing and production to America's success. Johnny's brother Ed, a GE engineer, takes him on a tour of GE's More Power to America train,…

Teenager Johnny Powers learns about turbines and generators and surge protection on power systems from his brother Ed, a GE electrical engineer, during a visit to GE and a ride on an electric streetcar. This was a revision of the first GE comic book,…

A family escapes the "Iron Curtain" and experiences the benefits of American life and electricity with GE engineer Ed Powers and his teenage brother Johnny.

GE engineer Ed Powers explains the basics of atomic theory to his younger brother Johnny Powers and highlights early atomic generating projects.

Teenager Johnny Powers explores a career in engineering after winning a science fair and talking with his brother Ed, a General Electric engineer. A revision of Adventures into the future, parts were re-drawn and inked and several panels were…

Johnny Powers and his classmates are challenged by their teacher to locate one hundred uses of electricity in the home and a nearby circus. With Johnny's older brother Ed they explore lighting, household appliances, and the many uses of electric…

GE engineer Ed Powers tells his younger brother Johnny the story of the development of the jet engine and how turbines and jet engines work. The story includes a visit to the GE Flight Test Facility at the Schenectady County Airport in Glenville, NY.

Ed Powers introduces his younger brother Johnny and his friend Jane to the latest in electronics, the transistor, and the impact it had on radios, televisions, and other electronics. The three visit GE's Electronics Park facility in Syracuse, NY to…

This is the first of the GE educational comic books. Johnny Powers visits his older brother Ed's laboratory at GE, and learns about life before electricity and how electricity is generated and transmitted.

Ed and Johnny Powers, along with Johnny's friend Jane, visit the WRGB television studio in Schenectady and GE's Electronics Park complex in Syracuse to learn about television and the development of high vacuum electronics. WRGB, founded in 1928, is…