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...(Bloomberg) The first Ponzi scheme In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and in 1879 Thomas Edison created the lightbulb....
...You younger people will live to see it. We older people (he was in his forties at the time), we shan’t see it.’...
...Alexander Hamilton — perhaps the most modern of the founding fathers, and the only one who has a rap musical about him running on Broadway — developed the “American system”....
...Should we regard Alexander Fleming as a pioneer because his discovery of penicillin led to the development of the worldwide business of antibiotics?...
...John Perlin, author of Let It Shine, the definitive history of solar power, describes Fritts as one of the 19th century’s great “zealous tinkerers”, like his contemporaries Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham...
...Any medium requires time to develop an etiquette: Alexander Graham Bell wanted to start phone calls with “Ahoy” but then Thomas Edison came up with “Hello”. Today’s etiquette for email is all wrong....
...From Guglielmo Marconi to Thomas Edison, the list of inventors who had breakthroughs or key insights at a young age is long....
...The centre is co-founded by Alexander Mamut, the oligarch who owns UK bookstore chain Waterstones. It has a high-quality restaurant and a rooftop bar with striking views across the city....
...Perhaps what has changed is the nature of the fame for which people lust....
...Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone transformed the world....
...It’s the nature of who we are as people.”...
...The advertisements, shown on Mixi, a social network website, feature people enjoying London while wearing blue bunny ears....
...Beginning in the mid-1850s, and aided by Alexander Jackson Davis, a renowned architect of the day, he subdivided the original land purchase, working outward from The Ramble, a 50-acre respite of brooks and...
...Others on the list ranged from Thomas Edison and Walt Disney to Richard Branson and Tony Blair, and from Warren Buffett and Sam Walton to Martin Luther King and Alexander the Great....
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