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...company, in the 1969 Mack heavy duty rescue truck, was called to a home in East Cambridge on a report that a woman was injured. Upon arrival the activity became intense--going into the house, down the stairs to the basement with the dirt floor, the one bare bulb, the police with flashlights and the bloody bodies...
Wrapped in sweaters and quilts against the cold because of a coal strike, I am reading about the computer society under one light bulb. Doesn't it seem ludicrous that scientists are developing machines to take over more of our lives while we in Ohio are regretting how much we are already dependent on electricity and machines for our wellbeing...
Brodeur traces the growth of microwave technology from its inception as part of a burgeoning communications revolution which began with Thomas Alva Edison's electric light bulb. Radio wave communication became a reality in 1915 with the invention of wireless telegraphy or "radio," and since then, inventors and scientists and engineers have honed their skills in radio wave technology, eventually learning to cram waves into the smallest possible frequencies technology could manage...
...sweating boatmen by the rivers. Not even a dirty shirt in view. Everything is swept, ordered, prosperous. The happy people of Huhsien county are the last Arcadians. Socialism, as it were, equals Ovid plus electricity. Their sacks of grain bulge like the bellies of good-luck gods. Every bulb of garlic in their fields is the size of a baby's head. Each melon and gourd displays, in its massive and purposeful rotundity, the benefits of collective selfcriticism. Like the bulbous backside of a Cadillac in America 20 years ago, the distended cabbage and the steatopygous turnip are images...
Thomas Alva Edison is placed apart from the mainstream of history. He invented the light bulb and the phonograph, improved the telegraph, telephone and movie projector, and developed a system for distributing electrical power to homes and businesses over broad areas. But most who survey American history view Edison as an eccentric anomaly, and leave his life and work to the historians of wizardry or of science. Conventional histories deal with technological development as though it were an independent force, growing without any influence from the men who in fact produced it. But to ignore an inventor as part...