Hints and tips:
...William D Cohan captures that drama exceptionally well in Power Failure....
...Before Gates there was Henry Ford and before Ford there were Thomas Edison, John D Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt and a host of other groundbreaking entrepreneurs all the way back to the Founding Fathers...
...I’m looking for table lamps made using interesting materials, and I’d like to avoid an exposed bulb situation. The whole exposed Edison bulb trend is just that — a trend....
...AIB director Rachel Goslins says, “When it opened there was a female sculpture at its centre holding aloft a lightbulb, which Edison had only invented nine months before....
...If we had to take a guess on what is keeping Musk awake at night, we’d probably have to say it’s the looming lawsuit from his favourite social media platform....
...Diana D’Souza Dartmouth College, Edison, NJ, US...
...Souza, Dartmouth College, Edison, NJ, US...
...(When a male mosquito wishes to attract a mate, his wings buzz at a frequency of 600Hz, the equivalent of D natural.)...
...Education isn’t Centuries of Sound’s raison d’être; the project is primarily a labour of love....
...The invention of the gramophone in 1887 — following that of Thomas Edison’s phonograph a decade earlier — revolutionised the enjoyment of music....
...There are no sound recordings before Edison’s phonograph in 1877, and the earliest decipherable music notation is about 500BC....
...Now, as wells restart, its supply has already risen 300,000 b/d since its low point in late May, according to Artem Abramov at Rystad....
...He’d made his first tape only two years earlier, in the Brazilian Amazon, where he’d gone to look for so-called owl monkeys....
...The market already consumes about 2.8bn cu ft/d on average....
...It is currently trading at about 60p on a market capitalisation of £146m versus net asset value of around 100p a share (based on Edison estimates)....
...“The difference between Elizabeth Holmes and Thomas Edison is the light bulb,” says Rayport....
...• And finally: it will be the 172nd anniversary of Thomas Edison’s birth next Monday, and a quote regularly attributed to the great man was used at a briefing by the Edison Electric Institute in New York...
...Edison Broce At 29, the independent politician is the youngest lawmaker in Panama’s national assembly....
...Think how much the Behan estate might have claimed if he’d ever got a taste for it. Galliford Try elsewhere History is repeating itself at builder Galliford Try, writes Kate Burgess....
...Both Sudan and South Sudan are members of the Opec+ group, and under its limits for the first half of this year, Sudan can produce 72,000 b/d of crude, compared to South Sudan’s 129,000 b/d....
...It wasn't even likely, until as a teenager Mr Jamison acquired social capital: a group of people who'd been to college and could help him get there....
...The intellectual tide among academic economists was towards profit maximisation as the exclusive raison d’être of the corporation....
...Your feedback I'd love to hear from you. You can email me on michael.mackenzie@ft.com and follow me on Twitter at @michaellachlan....
...The US Energy Information Administration estimates gas output from the prolific Appalachian region alone at 26.4bn cu ft/d, double the volume of January 2014....
...Alibaba is pouring $15bn into R&D, and many of the big tech groups are running joint innovation labs with the government....
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