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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Latimer literally wrote the book on electric lighting at Edison’s urging: Incandescent Electric Lighting: A Practical Description of the Edison System was published in 1890 by the Van Nostrand Company, a leading publisher of trade, technical, and scientific books in the 19th century.

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Engine Alliance Completes 100th GP7200 Engine; Specific Fuel Consumption Improvement Noted

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In recognition of the GP7200’s demonstrated fuel performance on the A380, Airbus recently revised the performance handbook, or “Orange Book”, to reflect a 0.5% The Orange Book is frequently used by prospective aircraft purchasers as a predictor of aircraft performance.

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Mattershift scales up CNT membranes; potential for zero-carbon fuels for less than fossil

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The company has already booked its first sales and will ship products later this year for use in a seawater desalination process that uses the least amount of energy ever demonstrated at pilot scale. He has co-edited 5 books on these topics. He has written 65 refereed publications, 3 patents, and 2 book chapters.

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Your Questions Answered: How Much Does It Cost to Charge an EV?

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Automotive journalist John Voelcker told Kelley Blue Book , “A conservative rule of thumb is that an electric car gets 3 to 4 miles per kWh… So divide the total miles you drive each month by 3 to get the kWh you would use monthly. Multiply that number by your cost per kWh.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Xerox executives made all sorts of promises: we’ll buy 20,000, just talk to this executive in Virginia, then talk to this executive in Connecticut. Not just one sheet, but whole books,” said Conway. It looked like a book, and Addison-Wesley agreed to publish it as a book. After a year I was ready to give up.”

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Twitter Files part 14 sheds light on “Russian bots” and #ReleaseTheMemo

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Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal also wrote a letter. ” Twitter executives later realized that they were”feeding congressional trolls” and compared the requests to a popular children’s book, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. “But note they didn’t call it incorrect,” Taibbi wrote.

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