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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
( University of Toronto ) Renowned University of Toronto physicist Richard Peltier has been chosen by the Franklin Institute to receive the 2010 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science. Peltier is the first Canadian to receive the $250,000 award and joins a group of previous recipients that includes Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
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Treehugger (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Photo of Thomas Edison with an electric car, 1913. Public domain. Sounds Familiar? The fundamental reasons why the electric car has not attained the popularity it deserves are (1) The failure of the manufacturers to properly educate the general public regarding the wonderful utility of the electric; (2) The failure of [power companies] to make it easy to own and operate the electric by an adequate...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
1. The inventors Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison were bitter rivals who each refused to share the prize or to accept it if the other recieved it first. In November 1915 it was reported they had won the Nobel Prize for Physics but, in fact, neither received the award
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www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
I have always been fascinated with people who have worn the tag of genius. Most know about physicist Albert Einstein and his Theory of Relativity and medical researcher Jonas Salk and his polio vaccine. Inventors Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell Source: www.bing.com
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Nature (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
The first person to make a reproducible recording of sound was not Thomas Edison. As Greg Milner explains in Perfecting Sound Forever, it was a French printer, Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, who etched sound waves on to a thin film of soot in 1857,
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Nature (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Engineer Duncan Miller has spent decades reviving the lost art of acoustic recording to wax cylinders, a technique pioneered by Thomas Edison. Nature finds out how his Vulcan Cylinder Record Company, based in Sheffield, UK, has combined sleuthing and modern chemistry to craft a new repertoire for the hand-cranked phonograph.
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Green Options (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Here’s a resource we’ll have plenty of as ever wider swathes of our forests get decimated by pests like the Pine Bark Beetle. Dead trees. In an adaptation eerily reminiscent of Thomas Edison’s dictum We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property ” a university has invented a technology to harvest one of the horrific effects of climate change. The University of Georgia...
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
by Agence France-Presse BRUSSELS - Tuesday marks the beginning of the end for traditional, energy-guzzling light bulbs throughout Europe, with the 100-watt and frosted bulbs the first to go. It is all part of a three-year scheme to rid the whole of the European Union of the traditional incandescent bulbs first put on the market by Thomas Edison in 1879. Some consumers have been stockpiling the old-style...
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Corpus Callosum (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
IEEE reports that chicken feathers are superior to carbon nanotubes: Scientists at the University of Delaware say that carbonized chicken feathers could be a cheap way to store hydrogen for fuel cells. According to chemical engineering professor Richard Wool, the heat-treated feathers could hold more hydrogen than costlier competing technologies, such as metal hydrides and carbon nanotubes. Reminds...
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Treehugger (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
Photo Credit: Laura Leyshon for National Post Vancouver designer and writer Jane MacDougall, shown above with her repurposed satellite dishes, writes an interesting article about the Gift of Thrift and comes up with some zinger quotes from famous DWMs, starting with Thomas Edison: “Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
Our Opposition Party Sucks | Coyote Blog OK, we will give in to your ridiculous use of government power if you will accept our ridiculous use of government power. Lots more on the complete waste of money and time that is corn-based ethanol here. American Thinker: Predator And how better to get campaign funds than subsidizing the production of a politically correct sports car for rich Leftist donors?...
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Safari Notes (Free subscription) | 07/24/2009
This photo which was probably taken at Kasai Occidental, the Democratic Republic of Congo - might seem fun and interesting, but it shows how merciless, cruel and indifferent We can be to our fellow creatures. All leading religions are against cruelty to animals. Much has been said about our relation to other creatures here on Earth and our treatment of them, by many thinkers, philosophers and writers:...
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Berto: Philosophy Monkey (Free subscription) | 07/21/2009
In the first episode of this magnificent documentary series, Let There Be Light, we saw the study of light begun by Greeks such as Empedocles and Euclid, continued by the Arab Alhacen, and culminated in the intellectual battle between the French and the British, with Rene Descartes and Sir Isaac Newton as their respective representatives. The second episode, The Light of Reason, showed how the gradual...
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Blue Rose Girls (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009
As I mentioned last week , I've been at the Highlights Foundation Writer's Workshop at Chautauqua. Chautauqua. Ah, Chautauqua . How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. 1) The Athenaeum Hotel, my home for a week. This was the first hotel in the world to have electric lights, thanks mainly to the fact that Thomas Edison's father co-founded the Chautauqua Institution. 2) My lovely hotel room and lake...
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