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From America's No.1 Appliance Maker to Ruins: General Electric Factory

1951: GE Appliance Park opened Louisville Kentucky, nine hundred acres farmland became seven hundred fifty acres manufacturing, five buildings fifteen football fields each, forty-five miles conveyors, own zip code 40225. November 13, 1953: installed first commercial UNIVAC computer American business—making modern kitchen and information age simultaneously. Employment peaked twenty-three thousand 1973. Jack Welch CEO 1981—cut one hundred eighteen thousand GE jobs five years worldwide, nicknamed Neutron Jack. Appliance Park fell twenty-three thousand to one thousand eight hundred sixty-three workers 2011. Building Two dark thirteen years 1998-2012. GE tried selling Electrolux, Samsung, LG—nobody bought. June 6, 2016: Qingdao Haier paid five point six billion dollars, Chinese company invested what American owner wouldn't. Employment grew eight thousand five hundred 2023. Four hundred fifty million dishwasher expansion 2021, four hundred ninety million washing machines returning from China 2025, three billion five-year investment 2025. Thomas Edison worked Louisville 1866 telegraph operator, spilled sulfuric acid supervisor's desk, fired. Same city became GE's largest consumer campus century later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Appl... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applian... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Welch https://www.courier-journal.com/story... https://www.geappliancesco.com/news-e... If you're fascinated by American manufacturing saved by Chinese investment, subscribe and drop a comment. #AppliancePark #GeneralElectric #JackWelch #Louisville #Manufacturing GE Appliance Park Louisville Kentucky twenty-three thousand workers peak 1973, Jack Welch Neutron Jack one hundred eighteen thousand jobs cut, Haier five point six billion 2016 purchase Chinese ownership investment, UNIVAC first commercial computer November 1953 installation business