When I asked my boss for a salary rise because I was doing the work of three men.
He said he couldn't increase my pay, but if I told him the names of the three men he'd fire them.
Edison on X-RaysIn 1903, Thomas Edison's concern about X-Ray injury was front page news in the New York World newspaper. Under the headline “Edison Fears Hidden Perils of the X-rays”the history of injuries of his laboratory employee were described. Clarence Dally had an arm and hand amputated because of cancer caused by exposure to X-rays. Edison's own experience was that viewing with his own X-ray fluoroscope harmed his own eyesight two years earlier. The focus of his left eye was disturbed by his experiments causing him to abandon research on X-rays. Edison, the “Wizard of Menlo Park,”was also quoted saying, “I am afraid of radium and polonium too, and I don't want to monkey with them.”[Image: Clarence M. Dally, from the newspaper article] |
