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...Rock Forest. But certainly the University's shoddy treatment of Black Rock over the last 15 years--including efforts to dump the property entirely--fall to offer reassurance that their explanation is entirely on the level. The forest was the source of another major controversy in 1973 when Consolidated Edison, which had had its eye on the forest since the mid-1960s, unsuccessfully sought to buy and flood 340 acres of Black Rock as part of the later abandoned Storm King Mountain hydroelectric power plant. Harvard appointed a committee to look into whether the land should be sold...
...evidence is impressive. "Everything that can be invented has been invented," said the head of the U.S. Patent Office in 1899. Declared Wilbur Wright in 1901: "Man will not fly for 50 years." Thomas Edison, circa 1880: "The phonograph . . . is not of any commercial value." Albert Einstein, 1932: "There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear] energy will ever be obtainable." Richard Wooley, then Britain's Astronomer Royal, 1956: "Space travel is utter bilge...
Planned and built in another, more optimistic age, America's electric utilities were modeled after the grandiose ideas of Thomas A. Edison, a hero of 19th century applied science. Now the industry is wallowing in unheroic times. In Midland, Mich., last week, directors of Consumers Power voted to stop construction on a nuclear project that is already $3.25 billion over budget, while local companies and state officials debated whether to save the plant. In New York, nearly 4,000 maintenance workers went on strike over wages against troubled Long Island Lighting, which is on the brink of default...
ABOUT TWO DOZEN bills concerning acid rain are now pending in both houses of Congress, and virtually all call for reductions in sulfur dioxide emissions. Although officially united in opposition to any new legislation, two major lobbying groups--the National Coal Association and the Edison Electric Institute--are privately divided over possible reduction plans...
Thomas Alva Edison, possessor of 1,093 patents, advertised with as much genius as he invented. The flyer for the early phonograph had a likeness of Uncle Sam, and the copy said, "Uncle Sam takes off his hat." Edison called the phonograph the Triumph. He made a million. -By Gregory Jaynes