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...John Harris Ward, 53, moves in as chairman and chief executive officer of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co., the nation's third largest public utility. He succeeds Willis D. Gale, 62, who becomes chairman of the executive committee. Harvard-educated (class of '30), Ward intends to push Commonwealth Edison further into household electric heating and the uses of automated machinery. His reasoning: "The more industry uses these wonderful gadgets, the more electricity is consumed...
Brooks, a native of Medford, Mass, received the BS in mechanical engineering form Tufts in 1950. He was an engineer with the Boston Edison Co. for a year and with Arthur D. Little, Inc., for nine years. Since 1960 he has been a research fellow with the Cambridge Electron Accelerator...
None of it would have happened, Edison once said, if he had not been almost completely deaf: he perfected the phonograph in 1887 because his own faulty hearing made him fascinated by the science of sound. His invention so fascinated the public that in those early years audiences sat for whole evenings in stunned silence listening to the tinfoil phonograph crow like a cock, bark like a dog or babble in foreign tongues. Later, the German Pianist-Conductor Hans von Bulow was so moved by Edison's handiwork that when he heard a recording of himself playing a Chopin...
Phonograph Inventor Thomas Alva Edison has a lot to answer for-as the most casual record-shop browser can testify. Sir Arthur Sullivan once declared: "I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever." Edison's invention has so profoundly altered the performance and consumption of music that it was possible for the most popular singer of the day-Elvis Presley-to build a recording-studio career while scarcely ever opening his mouth in public. To commemorate Edison's recent election to the Hall of Fame, the Edison...
...power came on again, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner demanded an investigation. Beleaguered Consolidated Edison declared that it was not overloading but faulty circuit breakers that caused all the trouble, and practically guaranteed that this kind of thing would definitely not happen again; but skeptics felt that future blackouts could be prevented only if everybody would please not turn on his air conditioner or all the other appliances that help make the city livable. To most New Yorkers, it was simply sobering to think how utterly they can be at the mercy of a couple of large...