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General Electric Company (UK)
The General Electric Company (GEC) was a British electrical and electronics conglomerate, founded in London in the 1880s and unrelated to the American General Electric.
General Electric F110
The General Electric F110 is a family of afterburning turbofan engines built by GE Aerospace that powers US and allied F-16 and F-15 fighters, in service since 1984.
General Electric F404
The General Electric F404 is a family of afterburning low-bypass turbofan engines built by GE Aerospace in Lynn, Massachusetts, best known for powering the F/A-18 Hornet and F-117 Nighthawk.
General Electric F414
The General Electric F414 is an afterburning turbofan engine built by GE Aerospace, rated around 22,000 lb of thrust, that powers the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler.
General Electric GE36
The General Electric GE36 was an experimental unducted fan engine, developed with NASA support, that flew on Boeing 727 and MD-80 testbeds and demonstrated 15 to 30 percent fuel savings before cancellation in 1989.
General Electric GE90
The General Electric GE90 is a high-bypass turbofan family developed by GE for the Boeing 777, first to use carbon fiber composite fan blades and certified in 1995.
General Electric GE9X
The General Electric GE9X is a high-bypass turbofan engine developed by GE Aerospace solely for Boeing's 777X family, certified in 2020 with a record 134,300 lbf of thrust.
General Electric GEnx
The General Electric GEnx, or GE GEnx, is a high-bypass turbofan engine family built by GE Aerospace for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and 747-8, introduced in 2011.
General Electric J47
The General Electric J47 was an axial-flow turbojet developed by General Electric from the J35, the most-produced US jet engine with more than 30,000 built by 1956.
General Electric J79
The General Electric J79 is an afterburning single-spool turbojet developed by General Electric in the 1950s for Mach 2 military aircraft, powering the F-104, B-58, and F-4.
General Electric J85
The General Electric J85, or GE J85, is a small single-shaft afterburning turbojet first run in 1956 that powered the Northrop T-38 Talon and F-5 fighters.
General Electric LM2500
The General Electric LM2500 is a marine gas turbine derived from the CF6 aircraft turbofan. First run in 1969, it powers warships for 39 navies worldwide.
General Electric Monitor-Top refrigerator
The General Electric Monitor-Top refrigerator is an early household refrigerator made by General Electric from 1927 to 1936, regarded as the first affordable electric refrigerator for average families.
General Electric T408
The General Electric T408 (T408-GE-400, GE38-1B) is a 7,500-shaft-horsepower turboshaft engine by GE Aerospace that powers the Marine Corps' CH-53K King Stallion, with Germany's MTU Aero Engines holding an 18 percent work share.
General Electric T700
The General Electric T700, designated CT7 in civil versions, is an American turboshaft helicopter engine first delivered in 1978 to power the UH-60 Black Hawk.
General Electric TF39
The General Electric TF39 is a high-bypass turbofan engine built to power the US Air Force's Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, and the ancestor of GE's CF6 family.
General Electric Theater
General Electric Theater was a GE-sponsored CBS anthology drama series (1953-1962), hosted by Ronald Reagan from 1954, mixing Hollywood star adaptations with company-voice advertising.
General Electricity Company of Libya
The General Electricity Company of Libya (الشركة العامة للكهرباء, GECOL) is Libya's state-owned utility, created in 1984 to run electricity generation, transmission, distribution, and water desalination.
General equilibrium analysis
General equilibrium analysis is an economic modeling method that determines prices, quantities, and welfare by requiring all markets in an economy to clear simultaneously, not one market in isolation.
General equilibrium theory
General equilibrium theory, also called Walrasian equilibrium, models an entire economy at once, asking whether one set of prices can clear all markets simultaneously; Arrow and Debreu proved existence in 1954.
General Federation of Korean Trade Unions
The General Federation of Korean Trade Unions was a right-wing South Korean union federation founded in 1946, later becoming the Federation of Korean Trade Unions.
General Foods
General Foods Corporation, American packaged-food company formed 1929 from the Postum Company; maker of Maxwell House, Jell-O, Kool-Aid, Birds Eye, and Post cereals; acquired by Philip Morris in 1985 and merged into Kraft General Foods in 1989, distinct from unrelated firms using the same name.
General Fox (army officer)
General Fox was the name under which the 1948 Nobel Committee credited Brigadier General Leon Alexander Fox, who directed the DDT dusting campaign against the 1943 Naples typhus epidemic.
General Fusion
General Fusion is a Canadian fusion energy company founded by physicist Michel Laberge in 2002, developing magnetized target fusion, which compresses magnetized plasma inside a liquid lithium liner.
General Government
General Government (Generalgouvernement, Generalne Gubernatorstwo): Nazi German civilian occupation regime in unannexed central-southern Poland, 26 October 1939 to January 1945, ruled by Hans Frank from Kraków.
General Grievous
General Grievous, born Qymaen jai Sheelal, is a fictional cyborg Star Wars villain who commands the Separatist droid armies and collects the lightsabers of Jedi he kills.
General Health Questionnaire
The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is a self-report screening questionnaire that detects probable anxiety and depression in community and primary-care settings, in versions from 12 to 60 items.
General Hospital
General Hospital is the longest-running American soap opera, created by Frank and Doris Hursley, airing on ABC since 1963 and set in the fictional town of Port Charles.
General Hospitals
General hospitals: broad-service hospitals providing medical, surgical, and maternity care across age groups, per WHO and MeSH definitions; contrasted with physician-owned specialty hospitals on cost, quality, and referrals.
General Hux
General Hux (Armitage Hux) is the First Order general played by Domhnall Gleeson in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, commanding Starkiller Base, feuding with Kylo Ren, and dying as a Resistance spy shot by General Pryde.