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[Watch Video: CES Attendees Find Themselves In Presence Of Ghost] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Thomas Alvas Edison made a ghostly appearance at the 2013 International CES, fascinating all those who stopped by the IEEE booth. IEEE set up a projector, and a humidifier to create the ghost of Thomas Edison during the event at their exhibition booth. As the inventor talked about how attendees needed to vote on which electronics would be outdated soon, people...
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics, Inc., (Caliber I.D.) formerly Lucid, Inc. (OTBB: LCDX) announced today that Utica, NY native, Rick Stathes, has joined Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics, Inc. as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "I'm excited for the opportunity to be part of this innovative team," said Mr. Stathes. "I have no doubt that our products will have a huge impact on improving the standards of care in many areas of...
LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Viamedia, the cable industry's leading independent cable rep firm and provider of online advertising services, today announced that Chris Black has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) based in Lexington, KY. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130107/CL37267) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101115/CL01765LOGO) Mr. Black comes to Viamedia with an extensive background holding senior finance...
ATLANTA, Jan. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern Company Chief Financial Officer Art P. Beattie today announced several changes within the company's financial management team, effective March 31. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130104/CL36981 )(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080801/SOCOLOGO ) Ann P. Daiss will become chief accounting officer and comptroller of Southern Company, as well as senior vice president and comptroller of Southern Company Services. Daiss...
HOUSTON, Jan. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ALTIVIA Corporation today announced that it has been sold for $125 million to Brenntag, the German-headquartered global leader in chemical distribution. Not included in the transaction is the company's affiliate, ALTIVIA Chemicals, LLC, which will continue to operate the ferric and ferrous sulfate production facilities in Pasadena, Texas and its aluminium polymers business. "This transaction allows ALTIVIA Corporation's employees and core...
BOSTON, Jan. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlantic Power Corporation (NYSE: AT) (TSX: ATP) ("Atlantic Power" or the "Company") announced that on December 31, 2012, it closed its previously announced acquisition of Ridgeline Energy Holdings, Inc. ("Ridgeline"). Upon closing, the maturity date of the Company's 6.00% series D extendible convertible unsecured subordinated debentures (the "Debentures") (TSX: ATP.DB.D) was automatically extended to December 31, 2019. The Company also announced...
Businesses like Nokero and Warby Parker don’t want to outsource doing good to non-profits. They’ve made it part of their mission as a company to use their respective expertise around the world and right here at home, as they showed when they teamed up to provide solar lights to residents of Brooklyn after Hurricane Sandy. Denver, CO (PRWEB) December 31, 2012 During the holidays, non-profits and community organizations take center stage as they raise much needed funds in this “season...
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- LumaSense Technologies, Inc. has named Brett Sargent as Chief Technologist to spearhead the company's 6(th) Sense Industrial Analytics initiative aimed at delivering progressive performance gains for international customers in Global Energy, Industrial Materials and Advanced Technologies. In his new and expanded role, Sargent will lead the 60-person LumaSense R&D and Product Management/Marketing team focused on...
Zhongtian Lighting is glad to launch this new product to meet the needs of customers and to help save energy. The LED bulb [ZT-G65E27-511A ] is an ideal alternative of traditional bulbs for home lighting and other commercial lighting. (PRWEB) December 16, 2012 Zhongtian Lighting is glad to launch this new product to meet the needs of customers and help save energy. The LED bulb [ZT-G65E27-511A ] is an ideal alternative of traditional bulbs for home lighting and other commercial lighting....
CHICAGO, Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Textura Corporation, the leading provider of collaboration solutions for the construction industry, is pleased to announce the successful implementation of Textura Corporation's Construction Payment Management (CPM) and Computer Guidance's eCMS v.4.0 Enterprise Resource Planning solutions at a mutual customer, GE Johnson Construction Company. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110602/CG12932LOGO) The integrated product of Textura?CPM...
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The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture device although not a movie projector. It is designed to be viewed by an individual through a window of a cabinet housing its components. It works by creating the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a light source with a high-speed shutter. Thomas Edison was the first to describe it in conceptual terms; however, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was the first to develop it. Ten Kinetoscopes...
Execution by electrocution, started in the United States, is an execution method in which the person being killed is strapped to a specially built wooden chair and electrocuted through electrodes placed on the body. Although its use is in decline the electric chair has become a symbol of the death penalty even though it was only used in the United States and briefly in the Philippines. The goal of the chair was to incapacitate the organs of the body in order to cause death. This was done...
Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat created the Vitascope, an early film projector, in 1895. They demonstrated the Vitascope at the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, they called it the Phantoscope. Armat and Jenkins fought over the rights to the invention and eventually Armat, with legal authority, sold the rights to the Kinetoscope Company. The company eventually approached Thomas Edison to finance the manufacture of their machine before it was outdated. He agreed on the term...
The telephone is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sound generally the human voice. The phone's basic function is to allow people who are separated by large distances to talk with each other. The telephone is used across the world and is one of the most common appliances in the developed world. The phone is designed to have a microphone, an ear piece which reproduces the voice, a ringer, and a keypad to enter the numbers. The microphone, earphone, and the keypad are...
The incandescent light bulb provides a source of electric light through incandescence. The bulb works by passing current through a filament which heats to a temperature that produces light. The glass bulb that contains the filament prevents oxidation of the hot filament. The bulbs are also called electric lamps. Incandescent bulbs come in a various sizes and voltages. They can range from 1.5 volts to 300, require no external regulating equipment and have low manufacturing costs. They work...
