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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…

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…

Johnny Powers builds a tin can turbine for a science fair. He and his friends learn about careers in engineering from Johnny's brother Ed, a General Electric engineer.

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

GE engineer Ed Powers takes his nephew Johnny and his friend Jane to Colonial Williamsburg to explore how electricity changed everyday life.

A GE comic about transistors that deviates from the traditional format. The comic is narrated by a radio vacuum tube, the technology that the transistor supplanted. The main characters are two unnamed characters an airplane pilot and his son, who…