Let There Be Light Lamp Shade Company 1. How many style A shades can be loaded into an intermodal container? The area of an intermodal container (8x8.5x40) is: 2,720 cubic feet. Each box of style A is 12 x 12x 12 inches, converted in feet is 1x1x1 feet. However, the top 6 inches (0.5 feet) has no use, so the calculation is= 8x8x40= 2,560. The intermodal container will hold 2,560 style A lamp shades (it would weigh less than 44,000 pounds) 2. How many style B shades can be loaded into an…

The General Electric company, or GE, had it’s beginnings in 1878, when Thomas Edison created his Edison Electric Light Company. Edison created his first publically available electric lamp, and changed the industry forever. By 1890, another company, the Thomson-Houston Company, had started, and created competition with Edison’s company. Being the only two large companies offering electric light, Edison Electric Light and Thomson-Houston had a lot of tension between them. But neither of them could…

Compact Flourescent Lamp and the Environment Abstract Technological advances have come a long way since the incandescent light bulb. Today, the compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) is the most energy efficient light bulb on the market. In the beginning, consumers had resistance toward the CFL. With governmental support in establishing energy-efficient lighting programs, the CFL have been able to stay in the market and improve throughout the years. Introduction With the advances in technology…

GENERAL ELECTRIC Thomas Edison the inventor of the light bulb and many other great inventions founded the Edison Electric Light Company in 1878. His reason for building the company was to have a place where could house all of his experiments in one place and which would also contained a workshop to support the inventions he an eventually other inventors were working on. It is a little known fact that Thomas Edison was not only known to be a great inventor but also a great businessman. In…

Lighting, (MLI) Inc was a company dealing with the manufacture of customized designed fluorescent light fixtures for commercial, and other institutional applications. This company was formed by Daniel Peterson and Julian Scott in 1956 in Flint, Michigan. Daniel was in charge of the engineering and finance sectors while Walters headed the Sales and design unit of the company. As the company grew, personal differences between the two emerged and Daniel bought out Walters from the company and brought in Richard…

High-Pressure Sodium Vapour Lamps (HPSV) street lights on Main and Ferry Street. The following material will describe the benefits of Light-Emitting Diode (LED) lighting compared to the current HPSV lighting used by many municipalities. Also this report evaluates the benefits LED lighting technology can provide for the City of Thorold as a possible energy efficient light source. The City of Thorold is in need of 30 HPSV street lights to be replaced on Main and Ferry St. The street lights are outdated and…

Company SWOT General Electric (GE) is a huge multinational corporation. The company started out as the Edison Electric Light Company in 1878. In 1892 the company was incorporated as General Electric thru a merger with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company. The company’s products and services include such items as aircraft engines, oil and gas production equipment, medical imaging, financing ,appliances, and industrial products . GE’s diversified businesses reduce its financial risk. GE currently…

Let there be light, and there was light Let there be sound, and there was sound Let there be drums, there was drums Let there be guitar, there was guitar, ah Let there be rock And it came to pass That rock 'n' roll was born All across the land every rockin' band Was blowin' up a storm And the guitar man got famous The business man got rich -Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Bon Scott (AC/DC) In the early 1950s…

Topic 6: “Asset light strategies are the only way ahead for international hospitality companies.” In the topic asset light strategies refers to international hospitality companies owning less assets. Assets are “items of economic value owned by an individual or corporation, especially that which could be converted to cash” (www.investorwords.com). The various different strategies international hospitality companies use in order to ‘lighten’ their assets could be by franchising, management contracts…

During the spring semester of 2016, I was fortunate enough have the opportunity to intern at the Duquesne Light Company in downtown Pittsburgh. During the course of my internship, I had the title of IT intern while working in the IT Department, specifically IT Planning & Control. In IT Planning & Control, we are responsible in a more managerial capacity. My supervisors oversee the business side of the IT, budgets, billing tools, and general business oversight. During my time there, I worked on a…