General Electric: Timeline

1926   The NBC radio Radio

Radio is the wireless transmission of signals [i], by modulation [i] of electromagnetic waves [i] ... 

 network opens with 24 stations (it was formed by Westinghouse, General Electric and RCA RCA

RCA, formerly an initialism [i] for the Radio Corporation of America, is no ... 

).

1946   In Philadelphia, strikers of General Electric and police clash

1956   General Electric/Telechron introduces model 7H241 "The Snooz Alarm", first snooze alarm clock ever.

1987   NASA NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the United States Government [i], res ... 

 announces the names of four companies who were awarded contracts to help build Space Station Freedom: Boeing Aerospace Boeing

The Boeing Company is an aerospace and defense corporation headquartered in Chicago [i], Illinois [i]. ... 

, General Electric's Astro-Space Division, McDonnell Douglas, and the Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell.