Exhibit 24

                            POWER OF ATTORNEY



      KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned,
being a director, officer or other official of General Electric
Company, a New York corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes
and appoints John F. Welch, Jr., Benjamin W. Heineman, Jr., Dennis D.
Dammerman, and Philip D. Ameen and each of them, his or her true and
lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution
and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and
stead in any and all capacities, to sign one or more Annual Reports
for the Company's fiscal year ended December 31, 1993, on Form 10-K
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or such other
form as any such attorney-in-fact may deem necessary or desirable,
any amendments thereto, and all additional amendments thereto, each
in such form as they or any one of them may approve, and to file the
same with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection
therewith with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto
said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite
and necessary to be done so that such Annual Report shall comply with
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the applicable
Rules and Regulations adopted or issued pursuant thereto, as fully
and to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in
person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-
fact and agents, or any of them or their substitute or resubstitute,
may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.


      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has hereunto set
his or her hand this 11th day of March, 1994.



John F. Welch, Jr.                        Dennis D. Dammerman
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Chairman of the Board                     Senior Vice President -
(Principal Executive                      Finance (Principal
Officer and Director)                     Financial Officer)



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                      Philip D. Ameen
                      Comptroller
                      (Principal Accounting Officer)

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H. Brewster Atwater, Jr.                  Robert E. Mercer
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Director                                  Director


D. Wayne Calloway                         Gertrude G. Michelson
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Director                                  Director


Silas S. Cathcart                         Barbara S. Preiskel
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Director                                  Director


Lawrence E. Fouraker                      Frank H. T. Rhodes
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Director                                  Director


Paolo Fresco                              Andrew C. Sigler
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Director                                  Director


Claudio X. Gonzalez                       Douglas A. Warner III
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Director                                  Director


Henry H. Henley, Jr.
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Director

                  A MAJORITY OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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