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GE Seminar Reviews State-Of-The-Art For Gas Turbines More than 60 technical papers were presented to a record number of attendees during the five days of General Electric's Gas Turbine Department Sixth Annual Gas Turbine State-of-the-Art Engi-neering Seminar held recently in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The papers, presented during 65 sessions by en-gineers from GE's Schenectady, N.Y., Gas Turbine Department and related GE departments, covered the thermodynamic performance, mechanical design, installation and maintenance, and application and economics of GE heavy-duty in-dustrial gas turbines. The State-of-the-Art Engineer-ing Seminar is presented annually by the GE Gas Turbine Depart-ment, and is attended by GE gas turbine customers from all parts of the free world. Its purpose is to acquaint Gas Turbine Department customers, prominent educators, and selected other GE personnel with the state-of-the-art of the de-sign, manufacture, and application of heavy-duty gas turbines. The seminar is divided into an initial three days of intensive group sessions on the overall gas turbine design, construction, control and characteristics and then subdivid-ed into four separate groups for the final two days of meetings. These four groups, each meeting concurrently, represent the Gas Turbine Department's major heavy-duty gas turbine markets in the pipeline, process, electric utility, and marine industries. They permit an in depth focus on specific indus-try economics and applications. Also included during the seminar is a tour of the Gas Turbine De-partment engineering and manu-facturing facilities in Schenectady. Whitman Ridgway, general manager of the GE Gas Turbine Department, views the record number of customers assembled during the recent banquet of the 6th An-nual Gas Turbine State-of-the-Art Sem-inar. Mr. Ridgway was host of the week-long affair. Commenting on the records set by this year's State-of-the-Art Seminar, Whitman Ridgway, gen-eral manager of the Gas Turbine Department, declared, "This is the largest group of customers ever to attend a Gas Turbine Department State-of-the-Art Engineering Sem-inar. But this is not surprising since every year our department grows considerably and our operat-ing experience increases manyfold and it is a natural extension of this growth that our seminar, where we tell our gas-turbine story, should also become larger. With our entrance into the marine mar-ket earlier this year, we are now making gas turbines to power four major fields?-pipeline, process, electric utility, and marine?and as a result, I expect our growth will continue to evolve at an increased rate." Mr. Ridgway was speaking to more than 300 customers and guests during the seminar banquet. The banquet is the social culmination of the week-long program. Also speaking during the eve-ning affair was Clement E. 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