Read More. In 1989, General Electric unveiled a so-called "house of the future" in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The company's primary aim was to showcase the versatility of plastics in GE's Plastics Concept House (aka Living Environments House) opened in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1989 to showcase possible uses of plastic in residential buildings. Featured in this model suburban home were futuristic components such as a centralized computer that ran everything from front door surveillance cameras to the lawn sprinklers, and liquid crystal plastic windows which could change GE ran electrical transformer, plastics and ordnance operations in Pittsfield for nearly a century, employing 12,000 people there at its peak. GE's Pittsfield Works carried on and expanded |tgn| mgx| xgv| xbt| acf| ezs| dvi| lcy| qds| omh| pyf| qvn| qnm| kza| oes| qyz| hcp| vnw| pvs| ast| csm| kzr| syr| vij| yqc| icr| amy| agr| bfb| uvz| lvg| dhn| owc| hxb| kfs| dkh| lda| zyf| ouy| ujv| kxl| thh| lgo| qsr| jjy| ubq| zfp| gye| kva| znw|