Sentences with phrase «when edison»

When Edison was asked if he felt like a failure when trying to invent the light bulb, he replied: «Not at all, I just found 1,000 ways not to make one!»

When Edison announced the electric light, they damned him as they did van der Kolk: with innuendo.

When Edison championed the notion of AC power supplies that could send electricity huge distances, he little realized that this would create massive plant for burning fossil fuels, or nuclear plants producing deadly waste that would remain deadly for millinia.

But when Edison shows up for a visit, he's gained so much weight that Pandora literally doesn't recognize the formerly slim, attractive brother she idolized.

If you stop and think about it, when Edison invented the light bulb he also had to invent the socket.

Yet if and when Edison does turn a profit, it will be a relatively small one.

But when Edison contrives to have Westinghouse's name attached to an invention that neither man supports, the electric chair, Westinghouse shows his underhand.

Also depends on when Edison said that, was it senile in his old age?

Arsenal conceded the fastest goal ever in Champions League history when Edison Cavani scored inside 42 seconds to put PSG ahead at the Parc des Princes stadium.

I have watched many PSG games when Edison Cavani was given a chance to shine as the main man Ibrahimovic was out injured.

Not exact matches

When, finally, he was approached by Edison Nation to join forces in licensing the product, Hensler stopped short.

As Thomas Edison said, «Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.»

Remember what Thomas Edison said, «When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this — you haven't.»

Thomas Edison once said, «Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.»

That was true at the beginning of this century, when men like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford exploited new technologies and restructured American industry.

You may recall that my last blog was about Collective Transformation — the innovative alchemy that occurs when two «unlikely partner» organizations collaborate... Continue reading The PianoArc: An «Edison Story»

The Edison International case involves a plan sponsor who put «retail» class shares in its company 401k plan when identically managed but lower cost «institutional shares» were available.

Finalists will learn whether they've won a Gold, Silver or Bronze Edison Award when the winners are announced during the April 23rd event in New York City.

When Thomas Edison had tried some hundreds of times to find a wire that could transmit a continuous flow of electricity, and had failed some hundreds of times, he did not say, «It is not the will of electricity to shine continuously in my wire.»

The Metro claim that fellow countryman Edison Cavani and Neymar has an on - field dispute over who was to take set - pieces and with one instance of Alves shielding the ball from Cavani and giving it to his fellow Brazil international when PSG were awarded a free - kick.

They got it in the 85th minute when reported Liverpool target Andy Polo looped a header over the keeper and in at the back post from Edison Flores» ball.

«It was hard to do that twice, especially win the sections two years in a row and when there hadn't been section playoffs before,» said Conway, who retired in 1997 after a 30 - year coaching career that also included stints at Edison - Stockton, St. Mary's - Stockton and Modesto Junior College.

When they arrive, though, the park is closed, and then Edison ends up stuck on a ferris wheel.

The lights story started, Randall said, when Commonwealth Edison recently installed service for the park that will allow for electricity at the picnic shelter.

When he cross-examined her, Molo pointed out that Paulin's husband held investments in Merck and Con Edison while she advocated legislation requiring a certain vaccine made by Merck and held hearings as head of the chamber's energy committee.

Under the Demand Response program, participating facilities and institutions limit the use of equipment and air conditioning when warnings are issued by the New York Independent System Operator and Con Edison.

When the second storm hit, Con Edison customers in Westchester County were just beginning to recover from a storm on Friday, March 2 that left 56,000 customers without power.

For instance, he says a transformer exploded Monday night when the seawater hit Con Edison electrical equipment.

October 4: Learn about early filmmaking tech when Thomas Edison National Historic Park in West Orange, N.J., screens the 1910 film Frankenstein.

Mr. Edison saw that there are two viewpoints: that of the electrical man with his instruments, his rules of efficient operation and reasonable life of the battery, his absolute knowledge that the same care should be given a vehicle battery that is given a valued horse or even a railroad locomotive; and that of the automobile driver, who simply wishes to go somewhere with his car, and who, when he arrives somewhere, wishes to go back.

(A tiny amount of the CO2 released when Thomas Edison cranked up his pathbreaking Pearl Street generator in Manhattan is still circulating 127 years later.)

«When we finally discovered the eggs, we felt like Thomas Edison must have felt seeing an electric bulb lighting for the first time.

There are even those who make a habit of it: Thomas Edison reputedly worked without sleep for days on end when in the throes of invention, as did his arch-rival, Nikola Tesla.

When Thomas Edison invented a practical electric lightbulb more than 130 years ago, he performed thousands of experiments on prototypes, and we still marvel at his methodical patience today.

Carbon fibers were fabricated as long ago as the 19th century, when Thomas Edison made them as filaments for his prototype lightbulbs; but serious industrial development didn't begin until the late»50s.

Rural African electrification isn't a main topic of conversation in most utility boardrooms today, just as carbon mitigation wasn't when Rogers used his chairmanship of the Edison Electric Institute to wrangle support for cap - and - trade legislation.

Until 1879 when Thomas Edison patented the electric lightbulb, artificial lighting didn't exist and after sunset, people relied on candles, lanterns, and fires for light.

Dating — Thomas Edison designed lightbulbs to hang from the ceiling because he was a selfish Very Tall Man and he didn't want anyone but... but it's funny you should say that because that's absolutely what I want people to think when they see us...

He does have the option of passing the crown to the one other heir out there, a young man by the name of Arthur (Timberlake, Edison), but when Shrek finds the lad, he is far from ready for any such responsibility.

Edison is on the verge of creating a marketable and sustainable electricity system for the first time in history, when Westinghouse notices a grand weakness in Edison's design and ignites a war of currents between these two rivals.

It's clear to see why the city of Edison was concocted, as no city would ever allow itself to be shown as this corrupt, especially when it seems to all - encompassing.

The movie suffers from this approach from the very beginning when an immaculately composed and lit scene follows a group of men on a train out to Menlo Park where Edison illuminates concentric circles of light bulbs.

Parents, however, should appreciate the writing and nuances — look for some clever scenes featuring characters like Jane Austin, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and John Merrick, and read some humorous road and shop signs in and around London and the various ports of call, including the pirate haven of Blood Island — but may become bored when the movie slows to a crawl near the middle.

Westinghouse assumes that Edison will be practical and want to merge interests when he sees what Westinghouse can do.

Edison refuses at first, but when he realizes he can turn this situation into more negative press for Westinghouse, he changes his mind.

Edison lured Tracy from his position as the superintendent of schools in New Milford, Connecticut, in 1993, when the company was still the Edison Project — more or less a team of researchers and entrepreneurs with a bright idea: to tie school reform to the profit motive.

A study by Matt Chingos and Paul Peterson that was published in Ed Next in 2009 looked at what happened when for - profit firms, including Edison Schools, were given control of some public schools in Philadelphia.

Kathy Morse, a music teacher who is taking her 90 minutes of professional development time in the teachers» lounge, adopts an evangelical tone when extolling the Edison model.

Just as Thomas Edison once said that «many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up».

When the local press reported that Edison was expected to assume management of many of the city's schools, the local teachers union mobilized in opposition, and groups of parent and student activists held rallies throughout the city.