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Shedding light on Nela Park's future.(News)(General Electric Co. plans light bulb future)
Crain's Cleveland Business, June, 2003 by Miller, Jay
Byline: JAY MILLER How many people does it take to change the light bulb industry? The 700 folks at General Electric Co.'s Nela Park in East Cleveland hope they can be a driving force. The company celebrated its 90th anniversary at the innovative campus in East Cleveland earlier this year as it marked a heritage that dates to 1879, when Thomas Edison unveiled the first practical electric light.
That lamp, the incandescent bulb, has become ubiquitous. But as much as Nela Park honors 19th century technology, it's planning for a future without it. The tungsten-filament incandescent light bulb is far from dead. The company will be turning out billions in the decades ahead. It is so cheap to produce that it overcomes its glaring inefficiency - only about 6% of...
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