Browse Items (47 total)

Light for the world.pdf
Students visit a theater and see a show about Edison's life and electricity-related inventions, including his incandescent lamp and bi-polar dynamo. The show also discusses the changes in electricity generation since Edison's time and how they shaped…

Spanish language version of "The Littlest Giant" comic book detailing the science and application of transistors.

Adventures in electricity 1.pdf
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,

Adventures in electricity 2.pdf
Johnny Powers and his classmates explore the many uses of electricity in the home and at the circus with the help of Johnny's brother Ed, a General Electric electrical engineer.

Adventures in electricity 3.pdf
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…

Adventures in electricity 4.pdf
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…

Adventures in electricity 5.pdf
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…

Adventures in electricity 6.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…

Adventures in electricity 8.pdf
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.

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,…
Output Formats

atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2