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...In 2008, Charlie Munger convinced his business partner Buffett to invest $230mn for a 10 per cent stake in the then little-known Chinese company, arguing that in Wang they had a mix of Thomas Edison and...
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...One GE facility to make nacelles — the gearboxes for wind turbines — is in the works in Schenectady, New York, where the company’s roots date back 130 years to Thomas Edison....
...Yet there is a compact and fascinating account of the preceding period from GE’s founding under Thomas Edison in the late 19th century....
...And FTX’s Super Bowl commercial indirectly comparing Bankman-Fried with Thomas Edison should have moved the meter’s needle into the red....
...A 32-year-old Thomas Edison was showing off his latest invention — the carbon filament incandescent lightbulb — in 1879 at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey....
...The article by John Gapper (“Rivian and Tesla have inherited Edison’s power to thrill”, Opinion, November 13) and your cartoon of the inventor Thomas Edison brought to mind the sole entry attributed to him...
...The inventor Thomas Edison came to the area in the 1880s, and built a winter estate in Fort Myers. Eventually, his friend Henry Ford joined him....
...More impactful than, say, 1896’s Thomas Edison-produced The May Irwin Kiss, these refreshing snippets capture black people’s longstanding desire for representation....
...Founded by the great inventor Thomas Edison, General Electric expanded beyond light bulbs and dynamos by acquiring hundreds of cutting-edge companies....
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...Charlie Munger, the sage of Omaha’s right-hand man, told his boss that in Wang they had found a mix of Jack Welch, the legendary General Electric boss, and Thomas Edison....
...The modern conglomerate was born of the long wave of electrical technological development led by entrepreneurs like Thomas Edison and Werner von Siemens....
...Joussen said that Tui also expected to benefit from the demise of its rival Thomas Cook, which went into liquidation in September 2019....
...Among the uses forecast by Thomas Edison for his newly invented phonograph in 1878 was recording the last words of a dying person....
...The relationship stretches back to 1892 when American financier John Pierpont Morgan organised the merger between Thomas-Houston International Electric and Edison General Electric....
...In her book Quirky, Schilling explores the traits and foibles of eight breakthrough innovators, including Thomas Edison, Marie Curie, Nikola Tesla and Elon Musk....
...Rivian and Tesla have inherited Thomas Edison’s power to thrill The founder of General Electric was a technical wizard and a showman but the company he founded became boring....
...There was the cursory comparison of Musk to Thomas Edison, discussion of “humanoid bots and exaflops” and, of course, a theory that the Tesla bot could help with the “initial exploration, preparation and...
...Buffett’s right-hand man, Charlie Munger, described the Chinese businessman as a mix between Thomas Edison and former General Electric chair Jack Welch....
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