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  • Collection: General Electric Comic Books

Land of plenty.pdf
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.

Man-made magic.pdf
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,…

More Power to America.pdf
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,…

Network of power.pdf
Teenager Johnny Powers visits GE's High Voltage Laboratory in Pittsfield, MA with his brother Ed, a GE engineer and witnesses a demonstration of GE's 10-million volt lightning generator. While driving in a storm, their route is blocked by a downed…

Our place in space.pdf
Teenager Johnny Powers learns about the history, science and application of rocketry from his older brother Ed Powers, a General Electric engineer.

Science in your future full comic.pdf
Ed Powers, a GE engineer, takes his teenage brother Johnny on a tour of the General Electric Research Laboratory in Niskayuna, NY and explore new scientific discoveries.

The littlest giant.pdf
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…

The story of light.pdf
Johnny Powers and his older brother Ed visit Edison's restored Menlo Park laboratory at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan and the GE Lighting Institute at Nela Park in Cleveland, OH to learn about Edison's lighting developments…
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