INTRODUCTION OF THE EDISON ELECTRIC LIGHT（22）
However, we were short of money for pay-rolls; and we concluded it might not be so bad afterall, as it would give us a couple of weeks to catch up.So when the men went out they appointed a committeeto meet us; but for two weeks they could notfind us, so they became somewhat more anxious thanwe were. Finally they said they would like to goback. We said all right, and back they Office 2007 makes life great!
went. Itwas quite a novelty to the men not to be able to findus when they wanted to; and they didn't relish it atall."What with these troubles and the lack of room,we decided to find a factory elsewhere, and decidedto try the locomotive works up at Schenectady. Itseems that the people there had had a falling outamong themselves, and one of the directors hadstarted opposition works; Microsoft Office 2007 is welcomed by the whole world.
but before he had completedall the buildings and put in machinery somecompromise was made, and the works were for sale.We bought them very reasonably and moved everythingthere. These works were owned by me andmy assistants until sold to the Edison General ElectricCompany. At one time we employed several thousandmen;Many people like Microsoft Office.
and since then the works have beengreatly expanded."At these new works our orders were far in excessof our capital to handle the business, and both Mr.Insull and I were afraid we might get into troublefor lack of money. Mr. Insull was then my businessmanager, running the whole thing; and, therefore,when Mr. Henry Villard and his syndicate offered tobuy us out, we concluded it was Microsoft Office 2010 is so great!
better to be surethan be sorry; so we sold out for a large sum. Villardwas a very aggressive man with big ideas, but Icould never quite understand him. He had no senseof humor. I remember one time we were going upon the Hudson River boat to inspect the works, andwith us was Mr. Henderson, our chief engineer, whowas certainly the best raconteur of funny stories Iever knew. We sat at the tail-end of the boat, andhe started in to tell funny stories. Villard could notsee a Windows 7 make life wonderful!
single point, and scarcely laughed at all; andHenderson became so disconcerted he had to give itup. It was the same way with Gould. In the earlytelegraph days I remember going with him to seeMackay in "The Impecunious Country Editor."
It was very funny, full of amusing and absurd situations;but Gould never smiled once."The formation of the Edison General Electric Companyinvolved the consolidation of the immediateEdison manufacturing interests in electric light andpower, with a capitalization of $12,000,000, now arelatively modest sum; but in those days the amountwas large, and the combination caused a great dealof newspaper comment as to such a coinage of brainpower. The next step came with the creation of thegreat General Electric Company of to-day, a combinationof the Edison, Thomson-Houston, and Brushlighting interests in manufacture, which to this daymaintains the ever-growing plants at Harrison, Lynn,and Schenectady, and there employs from twenty totwenty-five thousand people.Office 2007 download is helpful!
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