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29 Oct 2007, 9:44 pm
The proposal to use electricity provoked legal wrangles between the Edison and Westinghouse companies which promoted, respectively, direct and alternating current.Following the first electrocution in 1890, Dr Alfred Southwick, the chair of the commission which recommended the electric chair, was reported as saying that "we live in a higher civilisation from this day"(5) though Thomas Edison reportedly "rebuked the doctors and said it was a mistake to have let them handle the… [read post]
6 Jan 2011, 7:17 am by Carolyn Elefant
var docstoc_docid="68557277";var docstoc_title="Ten Solo and Small Firm Trends 2011";var docstoc_urltitle="Ten Solo and Small Firm Trends 2011";Ten Solo and Small Firm Trends 2011 [Editor's Note This is a long, long post - so you can read it here as a post in its entirety, or download it as a PDF (above)] Once again, it’s that season when, a blogger’s fancy turns to top trends (H/T Alfred Tennyson). [read post]