Erie Boulevard, view southwestward from State Street toward the General Electric Schenectady Works in Schenectady, New York. The picture celebrates the opening of a "Great White Way".

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Building 37 of the General Electric Schenectady Works at night, shortly after its opening in 1925. Building 37 was home to the GE Research Laboratory from 1925-1950, when the lab moved to nearby Niskayuna, New York. The GE sign atop the building remains a local landmark today.

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Dr. Katharine Blodgett, in General Electric Research Laboratory, demonstrating placing of anitglare fluid on a plate of glass. Dr. Blodgett was one of the first female Ph.Ds, and one of the first women to work in an industrial research laboratory.

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A signed portrait of Charles Steinmetz.

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First large steam turbine generator ever produced. Produced for Chicago Edison's Fisk Street Station by General Electric. 5000 kW Turbine direct connected to ATB-6-5000-500-9000-Volt Form T Generator. First 5000 kW Turbine set in test, March 12, 1903. Obsolete by 1909, it was returned to GE's Schenectady Works, where it remains today as an American Society of Mechanical Engineers Historical Landmark.

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