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1882
The world’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin. Powered by a water wheel, a single dynamo provides 12.5 kilowatts, just enough for 180 lights of ten candlepower each which will light Rogers’ home, the plant itself, and a nearby building. Appleton paper manufacturer H.F. Rogers had been inspired by Thomas Edison’s plans for a steam-powered electricity production station in New York. He had financial support from a personal friend of Edison’s and two other men.
1889
The Bundy Manufacturing Co., a maker of time recording equipment, is incorporated. It’s the first of many components that eventually become the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, Inc. (C-T-R), which will later become International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
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Did you ever hear anyone say, “That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?”
Dude, I totally wanted to tap that mana pool, but when I tried to strike up a conversation with her, I got summoning sickness. Looks like I’m not going to be discarding into her pile anytime soon.
But seriously, why can’t I ever meet a girl this crazy?
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Here’s the trailer for the upcoming television series The Walking Dead, which premieres on October 31st on AMC. It looks great, even compared to the original comic itself.
1885
The first practical public electric tramway in the world opens in Blackpool, England.
1887
Émile Berliner receives a patent for the gramophone, which is the first music playing device to use a flat disk record. (US No. 372,786) In 1898, he will founds the Berliner Grammophon Gesellschaft record company.
1891
Thomas Edison is issued a patent for a “Process of and Apparatus for Generating Electricity” and for a “Phonogram-Blank Carrier.” (US No. 460,122 and 460,123)
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I do not deny that the intellectual ideal is difficult of attainment, still less that it is, and perhaps will be for years to come, unpopular with the crowd. It is so easy for people to have sympathy with suffering. It is so difficult for them to have sympathy with thought. Indeed, so little do ordinary people understand what thought really is, that they seem to imagine that, when they have said that a theory is dangerous, they have pronounced its condemnation, whereas it is only such theories that have any true intellectual value. An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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