Word: edisons
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...main difference between the two consortiums is that the NEP employs two outside consulting firms - Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International - to conduct the actual exit polls. (The AP still compiles county-by-county voting results.) All of the data, including polling on 27 statewide referendums considered newsworthy by the NEP, is available for purchase by other news organizations and political candidates. News organizations can get the data on Election Day, while the politicians must wait one week to receive the data...
...have in common? Both are innovators in their fields. And both are Harvard dropouts. The lesser known of the two, Edwin H. Land, who died in 1991, was the founder of the Polaroid Corporation. Though he left Harvard in 1926, he obtained 500 patents (then second only to Thomas Edison), revolutionized the field of polarized lenses, and invented the Polaroid camera, according to the Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society...
...FACTS: A few critical elements--including damage on the south face, unusual structural design to accommodate a Con Edison substation, extreme weight bearing on floors, and long-burning diesel fuel leaked from large emergency generators--compromised WTC 7's structural integrity. The draft report is expected in early...
...basic needs to help people out of misery and poverty: water and electricity. So what if you could make point of use water with a little machine, instead of [depending on] municipalities? What if you could make point of use electricity, instead of waiting for the equivalent of Con Edison to build a massive infrastructure and transmission lines? Let's build technologies that scale down to deliver point of use water, point of use power, that don't have to get more granular than the village...
...will take more time than we had thought to get wholesale adoption, but unfortunately, when you look at history, that's true of the light bulb, it's true of electricity. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, and the next morning everybody read about it - by candlelight. A lot of good technology goes from indefensible to indispensable because, by pure logic, the day before it was invented, it wasn't invented, and everybody lived a different way. So the day after it's invented, you don't see people saying, "Yesterday my life was a mess, and today...