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A class discusses the basics of electricity generation and the challenges that face utilities with the increase in electricity usage.

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…

A microphone comes to life and takes young Jimmy on behind-the-scenes tour of the NBC radio studios.

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

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.

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…

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…