On the industrial side of its business, of course, GE housed a staggering amount of talent. It’s not crazy to think of GE, and its DNA, back in the day as the technological equivalent of Apple, Google, or Microsoft today. By one estimate, GE has more than 35,000 active patents and has received hundreds of thousands of patents since 1892. The innovations continue to this day. In 2018, GE unveiled a new family of engines that can be used to power a coming generation of supersonic jets.
