Sentences with phrase «edison machines»

It's another miss for Theranos, as the Silicon Valley start - up has voided the results of its 2014 to 2015 blood tests conducted on the Edison machines.

One former employee also charged that as late as 2014, Theranos did fewer than 10 percent of its tests on Edison machines.

The Edison machines are Theranos» main claim to fame.

Edison was so impressed he put Tesla immediately to work redesigning the DC generators at the Edison Machine Works.

And the voice recording he made at the hotel on an early Edison machine, just four days before he died - we still have the wax cylinder, in a climate controlled room in a museum in Honolulu, but the sound of his words has been eaten away by time.

Thomas Edison relocated his Edison Machine Works to the city in 1887.

Not exact matches

According to a Wall Street Journal story, Theranos uses machines made by Siemens for many of its blood tests, rather than its own machine, dubbed Edison.

The first incident, according to The Journal, involved a blood test ordered in 2013 for a patient using the company's proprietary Edison lab machine.

Theranos also faced allegations that most of its tests were in fact performed with traditional lab machines, not its proprietary Edison device, prompting potential sanctions against the company's CEO, Elizabeth Holmes.

The patch never made it to market, but Holmes quickly redirected the company with the creation of «Edison» — a machine that could test for a variety of disease using a single pinprick of blood.

Ever since Enrico Caruso was first pressed on one of those scratchy, one - sided 78s for Mr. Edison's new gramophone machine, nearly every musical performer has felt compelled to issue a Christmas album, and the sheer bulk of that music adds up to more than anyone could listen to in a thousand holidays.

In its choosing machines built by Apple Computer Inc. for its for - profit privatization venture, the Edison Project is not alone.

Illustrated with cartoonlike artwork, the book compares present - day gadgets and technology, such as batteries, lightbulbs, and vending machines, with inventions created in Edison's lab.

Other rooms include both a Heavy Machine Shop and a Precision Machine Shop, a testament to Edison's claim that his shop could make anything from a ladies» watch to a locomotive.

In 1887, Berliner improved on Tomas Edison's music machine which played music cylinders.

IN 2006, KEN JACOBS took a one - minute film produced in 1903 by Thomas Edison and made of it an infernal machine.

Shere covers renewable energies fairly comprehensively, with chapters on biofuel, solar energy, wind energy, geothermal energy, and various types of hydropower (from today's cutting - edge machines to extract power from currents, waves or tides to the intrigues surrounding the birth of commercial electricity in North America as George Westinghouse, Thomas Edison and Nicola Tesla (among others) jockeyed for position.)