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NEWARK, N.J., March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Phone.com, Inc. today announced it has closed an investment from ff Venture Capital to propel the company's goal of increased growth. In conjunction with this commitment, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) has awarded the company an additional investment, for a total of $2 million. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121002/NY84926LOGO) The funding from ff Venture Capital and the NJEDA is an infusion of...
DUBLIN, March 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Funding to Accelerate Product Development and Global Sales Expansion Lincor Solutions announces it has secured a $9.5 million equity investment from Edison Ventures, a leading US venture capital firm with a track record of successful investment in healthcare IT enterprises. The company expects to add over 30 positions in software development, sales, marketing, customer support and finance roles over the next year in...
The first-of-its-kind paper towel recently gained a "4-Star" Environmental Leader Technology Review score and is a finalist for the prestigious 2013 Edison Awards CANDIAC, QC, March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Today, Cascades Tissue Group announced its Cascades Antibacterial paper towel secured a "4-Star" Environmental Leader Technology Review Score and has been named a 2013 Edison Awards Finalist in the Consumer Packaged Goods: Cleaning Solutions category. Both mark prestigious...
It was announced on February 20th, 2013, that Daphne Large, CEO of Data Facts, was awarded the CEO of the Year award by the Memphis Business Quarterly. Award categories are based on the number of employees, and finalist were chosen by a panel of local business experts. (PRWEB) March 05, 2013 Data Facts Inc, a leading provider of background screening, mortgage and lending products, and business credit solutions, announced that Daphne Large, Chief Executive Officer of Data Facts Inc, has...
STOUGHTON, Wis., March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Nelson Global Products Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacture of tubular and exhaust products for commercial vehicle markets, has acquired Water Works Manufacturing located in Cambridge, MN. Water Works also has two subsidiaries; Cambridge Metals and Plastics (CMP), located in Cambridge, MN and, Interlaken Technology Corporation (ITC), located in Chaska, MN. The acquisition is effective immediately. Water Works will...
Service and support capabilities continue to outperform industry competitors SAINT PAUL, Minn., March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MGC Diagnostics Corporation (NASDAQ: MGCD) (formerly Angeion Corporation), a global medical technology company, today announced that its pulmonary function products, service and support continues to outperform industry competitors as well as increasing its margin above Market Average. As published in MD Buyline's User Satisfaction Report((TM)), MGC Diagnostics...
WALL TOWNSHIP, N.J., Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Coates International, Ltd. (NASDAQ OTCBB: COTE) -- Coates International, Ltd. (the "Company") is currently working with four different states and has received offers of business and tax incentive packages designed to induce the Company to establish manufacturing operations in their state. Management is studying these incentives and visited one of these states last week to inspect production plants to assess their suitability for...
Cutting-edge software is a top contender in the Smart Systems category for 2013 VAUGHAN, Ontario, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Mircom Group of Companies(TM) has been nominated for a 2013 Edison Award(TM), in the grouping of Smart Systems for its innovative Open Graphic Navigator(TM) used in Building Systems. Winners will be announced at the Awards Dinner and Gala in Chicago, IL on April 25, 2013. "We are proud of our Open Graphic Navigator and honoured to have it...
ATLANTA, Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern Company Chairman, President and CEO Thomas A. Fanning today announced that Kimberly S. Greene has been elected president and CEO of Southern Company Services, Inc. She will also have a seat on the company's management council. Greene will succeed Susan N. Story, who is retiring from Southern Company to become chief financial officer of New Jersey-based American Water. The announced changes will take effect April 1. (Photo:...
NEW YORK, Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the most highly anticipated KickStarter projects of all time LIFX, the multi-color, app controlled light bulb has revealed the final design of their futuristic LED light bulb. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130220/HK63011 ) The design has been met with enthusiasm and excitement from backers, LIFX fans and social media channels. The LIFX team have given their 9,000 backers a choice of four finishes which is currently being...
Latest Thomas Edison Reference Libraries
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...
