"Tomorrow's Engineers Read the Comics," General Electric Review, September 1953
Article about the success of the General Electric comic book program, written by one of the managers of the program.
Van Avery, Dwight
General Electric Company
1953-09
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Pages 20-22
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"Ubiquitous Atom," GE Monogram, August 1958
Article about the international success of the GE comic books.
Transcript:
Ubiquitous Atom: General Electric's
educational "comic book" Adventures Inside
the Atom, recently translated into
Urdu and Arabic, has made its debut in
Pakistan and the Middle East, through the
auspices of the U.S. Information Agency.
The popular pamphlet-some 8.7 million
copies distributed in the U.S.-is available
in six other lands, scheduled for Turkey,
Indonesia, and Portugal. The Company
has granted free reproduction rights
for overseas publication, through such
agencies as USIA and the United Nations
Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization
(UNESCO). In the photo below,
Atom makes a hit- in three languages with
U.N. guides in New York: (from
left) Iraq's Ramzi Nemo with Arabic version,
India's Mrs. Ratna Jhangiani with
Urdu translation, and Afghanistan's
Abdul Monsour with English copy.
General Electric Company
General Electric Company
1958-08
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Adventure into the future
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.
Pictorial Media, Inc.
General Electric Company
1952
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Comic book; color; 6.7 x 10 in (17 x 24 cm.)
eng
Comic book
APG 17-10
Comic books
Adventure into the past
GE engineer Ed Powers takes his nephew Johnny and his friend Jane to Colonial Williamsburg to explore how electricity changed everyday life.
Pictorial Media Inc.
General Electric Company
1949
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Comic book; color; 16 p.; 6.7 x 10 in (17 x 24 cm.)
eng
Comic book
APG 17-6
Comic books
Adventures in electricity number five: electricity in railroading
Johnny Powers visits the centennial of railroading exhibition with his brother Ed, and explores Thomas Edison's electric rail demonstration track at Menlo Park, the history of electric and diesel-electric locomotives, and a comparison of different locomotive technologies.
General Comics, Inc.
General Electric Company
1948
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Comic book; color; 6.7 x 10 in (17 x 24 cm.)
eng
Comic book
APG 17-4
Comic books
Adventures in electricity number four: X-rays - in medicine, industry and science
Johnny Powers falls from a tree and hurts his arm. As older brother Ed Powers, a GE engineer, takes him to the hospital for an X-ray, he explains how X-rays work and the history of X-rays, including the contributions of Wilhelm Roentgen and William Coolidge, a GE research scientist who invented the hot-cathode vacuum X-ray tube in 1913.
General Comics, Inc.
General Electric Company
1947
Roussos, George, 1915-2000
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Comic book; color; 6.7 x 10 in (17 x 24 cm.)
eng
Comic book
APG 17-3
Comic books
Adventures in electricity number one: the generation of electricity
Ed and Johnny Powers travel out into a storm and are stranded by downed power lines. Ed, a GE engineer, uses the opportunity to teach his younger brother about the generation and transmission of electricity,
General Comics, Inc.
General Electric Company
1946
Pictorial Media, Inc.
Roussos, George, 1915-2000
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Comic book; color; 6.7 x 10 in (17 x 24 cm.)
eng
Comic book
APG 17-1
Comic books
Adventures in electricity number seven: a story of electronics
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 credited as being the first television station.
Pictorial Media, Inc.
General Electric Company
1950
Roussos, George, 1915-2000
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Comic book; color; 6.7 x 10 in (17 x 24 cm.)
eng
Comic book
APG 17-8
Comic books
Adventures in electricity number six: the story of light
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 and recent lighting innovations at GE.
General Comics, Inc.
General Electric Company
1949
Roussos, George, 1915-2000
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Comic book; color; 6.7 x 10 in (17 x 24 cm.)
eng
Comic book
APG 17-7
Comic books
Adventures in electricity number three: distribution of electricity
Revision of Adventures in electricity number one. Focuses on the generation and transmission of electricity. Young Johnny Powers gets caught in a storm with his older brother Ed Powers, a GE engineer. The cover shows the General Electric lightning experiments at the Empire State Building.
General Comics, Inc.
General Electric Company
1946
Roussos, George, 1915-2000
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Revision of Adventures in electricity number one
Comic book; color; 6.7 x 10 in (17 x 24 cm.)
eng
Comic book
APG 17-1
Comic books