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...cost of switching to cars. At the time, a gallon of gasoline cost 18�, which today would be close to $4--exactly where some experts think we might be headed. But that was still a bargain compared with the oats and tack and stables needed to sustain what Thomas Edison called "the poorest motor ever built...
...with the older, cooler kids, he says. “They used to get paid for doing tech, and when you’re 14, the idea of getting paid for playing with lights is really cool,” he says.The theatre scene in Ur’s Edison, New Jersey high school was student-driven. “It was just a bunch of 14, 15, 16 year-old kids who’d always try and find a teacher who would be a director of a play, and we’d kind of come...
...because Shuji Nakamura is not easily discouraged. In 1993 he astonished the scientific community with the first successful blue light-emitting diode, or LED. The blue LED was the last step in the creation of lighting's holy grail, the brilliant white LED--an ultra-efficient successor to Thomas Edison's incandescent lightbulb, circa...
...There should be little surprise that a new vintage of this genre was due. Hill’s book on personal achievement is based on portraits of a long departed generation, men like John D. Rockefeller and Thomas Edison. And Peale, a Christian minister, appealed to a straight-laced 50s set. “The Secret,” in contrast, has a slick, contemporary feel: light on the religion, heavy on the spirituality, and sprinkled with allusions to quantum physics...
...Aided by the intimate setting of the Edison and Newman Room, where the performers were framed by rows of folding chairs in a semi-circle, it was evident that there was more to the music than crescendos and legatos. Although Lipkind and Schellenberger were surrounded by shelves upon shelves of old, leather-bound books, the most significant narratives of the evening were made through the resonating notes of the piano and cello...