Yes, there's opportunity here for someone with Thomas Edison's creativity and a willingness to work on ... asphalt roof shingles.
's Diablo Canyon nuclear plant and Southern California Edison's San Onofre plant, both of which are on the Pacific Ocean, near fault zones.
Founded in 1895 as U.S. Voting Machine Co. to exploit Thomas Edison's pioneering invention to make elections more honest, the company plodded along for decades and was sold to Rockwell International.
Founded in 1895 as U.S. Voting Machine Co. to exploit Thomas Edison's pioneering invention to make elections more honest, the company plodded along for decades and was eventually sold to Rockwell International.
The Swach's cartridge, a key component of the system, resembles Edison's electric bulb and is made up of a composite of rice-husk ash (a highly porous material derived out of paddy husk) and fine particles of nano-silver, which inhibits bacteria growth.
Located near San Clemente, the San Onofre nuclear plant's twin reactors are "Southern California's largest and most reliable sources of electricity, " according to Southern California Edison's website.
Harold Brown, a 31-year-old self-taught engineer, asked if he could conduct experiments at Edison's lab.
The real electrical innovation, he argues, wasn't Thomas Edison's idea of installing individual power plants in factories.
But Thomas Edison's idea--that power should be distributed as direct current--is being revived.
Con Edison's Mike Clendenin said there were just 317 customers without power in the city on Saturday morning, mostly in Brooklyn.
One thousand lumens from a CFL is visually harsh and makes food (and people) look ugly, compared with the same 1, 000 from Edison's incandescence.
It was Edison's financial clerk, Samuel Insull, who thought of creating a central plant that powers an entire region, turning electricity into a utility and vastly dropping its price.
Nearly all of the 972 meter readers in Southern California Edison's territory accepted retirement packages or were transferred within the company, says Pat Lavin of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
Other companies receiving awards include New York's Consolidated Edison Company, Houston's CenterPoint Energy, and Progress Energy.
This book, along with Bruce Berman's From Ideas to Assets and Julie Davis and Suzanne Harrison's Edison in the Boardroom, has captured the business community's attention by detailing the way companies have turned patents into cash.
If funding is successful, you'll be able to wave hello to Edison Junior's DoorBot -- an app-enabled, WiFi-connected video doorbell.
The city's Consolidated Edison utility provider said some 500, 000 homes in Manhattan were without power.
The city's Consolidated Edison utility provider said an explosion at a sub-station, probably caused by flooding or flying debris, blacked out much of Lower Manhattan.
In the U.S. a dozen utilities, including Ohio's American Electric Power and New York's Consolidated Edison, are running small tests of the technology at anywhere from 3 to 250 homes each.
Federal officials have made a priority of trying to restore power to the millions of people still in the dark, by promising to fully reimburse all costs of power restoration and coordinating with private energy companies such as New York's Consolidated Edison Inc.
In the U.S. a dozen utilities, including Ohio's American Electric Power (nyse: AEP - news - people ) and New York's Consolidated Edison (nyse: ED - news - people ), are running small tests of the technology at anywhere from 3 to 250 homes each.
But its most fascinating character is Samuel Insull, the British-born, longtime assistant to Edison, who went on to found what was once the nation's largest investor-owned public utility, Commonwealth Edison, and became immensely wealthy.
Thomas Edison remains one of America's heroes, both in business and in popular history.
Lemelson is said to rank third among U.S. inventors behind Edison and Polaroid film inventor Edwin H.
Elsewhere, Ecuador beat Bolivia 3-1 with goals from Edison Mendez, Manchester United's Antonio Valencia and Birmingham's Cristian Benitez.
And the coastal city of Gangneung helped pay for a phonograph-shaped building to hold a local businessman's collection of Thomas Edison memorabilia, including hundreds of gramophones and light bulbs.
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People like to tag Kurzweil as the "rightful heir to Thomas Edison, " and that's not a stretch considering he's responsible for some of the most useful inventions of the past century.
The Edison Electric Institute reports that U.S. electric power output hit a new winter record of 89, 483 gigawatt hours last week.
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