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GE Beetle, designed and assembled between 1958 and 1961, was a shielded vehicle meant to work on nuclear powered bomber planes. (lemmy.world)
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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Good ol General Electric

Washing Machines
Refrigerators
Electric Stoves (before they were cool)
Helicopter Front-mounted Machine Guns
Shielded Nuclear Plane and Sub Maintenance Vehicles

Sure, they looked dumb and weren't very spacious, but I guarantee you some stuff they built in the 50s are still seeing heavy use today.

[–] benignintervention@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

And then Jack Welch entered the scene and destroyed the company and also hundreds of thousands of lives

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