1858-1877: Cooper is in his 70s and 80s, involved in telegraphy and running Cooper Union. At age 69, he puts together a consortium of friends, to finance the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Co. The consortium includes Alexander Bell, Cyrus Field and Samuel Morse. Peter Cooper i...
Alexander said “We remain convinced that the outage cannot be explained by events on any one utility system.” What perspectives would you offer beleaguered FirstEnergy officals, and those of us who seek to learn from their experience? Peter responds: I haven’t made a close study of the...
When I finished the book I felt like I had just looked into a magic crystal ball showing me possible directions of where we’re heading and the reasons for what has happened in the past. This is a more recent talk (2012) by the author William Strauss, senior economist and economic advis...
To our left were three Chelsea supporters from Norway, who mentioned they were looking forward to seeing a Norwegian called Alexander Sorloth play for Palace. I had not heard of him. “The Chelsea Potter.” Here was a famous Chelsea pub, one that I have often heard mentioned in despatches...
– Alexander the Great “Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that is counted counts.”- Einstein ‘Iron Maiden has our field and that’s what we plow. We can only plow one field at a time; we don’t care what anyone else is doing with their field.’-Bruce...
Master of ceremonies Barry Forshaw announced me as the the winner and quoted Sue Wilkinson, the chair of the 2021 committee who said: ‘Peter May infuses his books with a real sense of place, whether it be China, France or the Hebrides. His books are tense, atmospheric and complex but ...
atGAFFTAthat reflect open culture,collaboration and code/creativity. Its a nice overvoew of what were up to and features some of the most engaging projects today by artists likeC.E.B Reas,Aaron Koblin,Stamen Design, andGray Area resident artists Gabriel Dunne, Ryan Alexander and Daniel Massey...
The road was at such a point of a hill and so narrow that I could not turn around because I was so near to them that they could have caught me if I attempted it, and I had no other way to do than to meet them as well as I could. I took my pistols out at once, laid one...
“People came to see me as a symbol of press freedom. They see me with more credibility than I might otherwise have had, so that’s why I feel a certain kind of responsibility.” In jail, the campaign became “far bigger than any of us ever imagined” he says. “We struggled to wo...