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26 Nov 2007, 2:29 pm
Safety precautions were barely in evidence; just a few pairs of eye goggles were seen in use on a recent visit.Rodrik then notes the company's response:An embarrassed Con Edison says that it is now rewriting its international contracts to include safety requirements.But the issue may not be that easy to solve, Rodrik points out:Fine, but what if these requirements now raise the cost sufficiently for the utility to want to switch its supplies to another source? [read post]
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… [read post]
28 Oct 2007, 6:50 pm
»International Monetary Fund Ceo, 1959. [read post]
11 Sep 2007, 7:35 pm
"[23]Recall that, at the Chicago Fair in 1893 (Columbian Exposition), the light bulbs of Edison were NOT used, even though the Edison patent was in effect until 1894. [read post]
28 Aug 2007, 1:00 pm
Southern California Edison. [read post]
13 Aug 2007, 3:10 am
Stephen Nipper will host Blawg Review at The Invent Blog on February 11th, which is coincidentally National Inventors Day in honor of the anniversary of the birth of the inventor Thomas Alva Edison who had over 1,000 patents. [read post]
11 Jun 2007, 4:35 pm
Carl Olson, who apparently is the Chairman of some outfit called the Fund for Stockowners' Rights (which doesn't seem to even have a website), somehow got access to the Harvard Corporate Governance blog, where he whines about the following Q&A from Edison International's proxy statement:Q: How may I communicate with the Boards? [read post]
3 May 2007, 10:20 am
International Brotherhood. of Teamsters, Local 734 Health & Welfare Fund v. [read post]
9 Apr 2007, 1:54 pm
Nakamatsu is a prolific and eccentric inventor who claims to have over 3,000 patents (that loser Edison had fewer than 1,100), including early versions of the floppy disk, the digital watch, aircraft landing gear, and something called the "Love Jet" that I frankly didn't look into too closely. [read post]
1 Apr 2007, 5:00 am
If the Court had gone the other way, everything before 1972 would be in the public domain, from Edison's wax cylinders to the Beatles. [read post]
29 Mar 2007, 12:57 am
""IPBiz notes that Edison secured backing from J.P. [read post]
26 Mar 2007, 5:37 pm
She complained several times to her superiors - but she refused to cooperate with internal EEO investigations. [read post]
24 Mar 2007, 4:14 am
Edison always was using DC. [read post]
19 Mar 2007, 8:45 pm
The Latvian song can thus be described as - NOCTURNAL.An Italian song will bring Latvia no Italian votes, as Italy is not participating in the Eurovision Song Contest this year at all, due to unfortunate internal politics - forgetting that MUSIC is paramount. [read post]
26 Feb 2007, 7:53 am
Wilson Yuen writes:"MP3 is currently the most powerful algorithm in a series of audio encoding standards developed under the sponsorship of the Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and formalized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). [read post]
5 Dec 2006, 11:37 am
" "Focus on internal development and building sustainable capabilities. [read post]
6 Nov 2006, 5:19 am
Edison International revealed Friday that federal regulators might investigate the company’s energy trading operation. [read post]
