My question is: why is it that

My question is: why is it that postmen on bicycles are not wearing
helmets !!

Pah! I want to see the bloke that the Philips Head screwdriver was named
after.


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cfsmtb

On Mar 28, 10:51 am, wrote:
My question is: why is it that postmen on bicycles are not wearing
helmets !!

Maybe it is like the seatbelt laws (in WA at least). Not necessary if
you are reversing, or frequently stopping. Don't often see postment
reversing, though.

Brendo

cfsmtb wrote:
Pah! I want to see the bloke that the Philips Head screwdriver was
named after.

I was present when his statue was unveiled and went to his funeral. He was
better known for light globes though.

Theo

On Mar 28, 2:28 pm, "Theo Bekkers" wrote:
cfsmtb wrote:
Pah! I want to see the bloke that the Philips Head screwdriver was
named after.

I was present when his statue was unveiled and went to his funeral. He was
better known for light globes though.

Theo

You are mistaken - Einstein invented the light globe and his first
name was not Phil:

"I bet Einstein turned himself all sorts of colors before he invented
the light bulb." - Homer Simpson

http://www.geocities.com/gabrudos/quoteshomer.htm

Donga wrote:

You are mistaken - Einstein invented the light globe and his first
name was not Phil:

Nope, he "improved" the vacumn incandescent light globe. There were
other around before him. I believe his major claim really is in giving
us a degradable light globe.

"Terryc" wrote in message
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Donga wrote:

You are mistaken - Einstein invented the light globe and his first
name was not Phil:

Nope, he "improved" the vacumn incandescent light globe. There were other
around before him. I believe his major claim really is in giving us a
degradable light globe.

Nope again - try Edison...

Plodder wrote:
"Terryc" wrote in message
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Donga wrote:


You are mistaken - Einstein invented the light globe and his first
name was not Phil:

Nope, he "improved" the vacumn incandescent light globe. There were other
around before him. I believe his major claim really is in giving us a
degradable light globe.


Nope again - try Edison...

Well, you are welcome to your version of history.

"Terryc" wrote in message
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Plodder wrote:
"Terryc" wrote in message
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Donga wrote:


You are mistaken - Einstein invented the light globe and his first
name was not Phil:

Nope, he "improved" the vacumn incandescent light globe. There were other
around before him. I believe his major claim really is in giving us a
degradable light globe.


Nope again - try Edison...

Well, you are welcome to your version of history.

"In addressing the question "Who invented the incandescent lamp?" historians
Robert Friedel and Paul Israel (1987, 115-117) list 22 inventors of
incandescent lamps prior to Swan and Edison. They conclude that Edison's
version was able to outstrip the others because of a combination of factors:
an effective incandescent material, a higher vacuum than others were able to
achieve and a high resistance lamp that made power distribution from a
centralized source economically viable. Another historian, Thomas Hughes,
has attributed Edison's success to the fact that he invented an entire,
integrated system of electric lighting"

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_globe

Nothing about Einstein...

On Mar 31, 7:57 am, "Plodder" wrote:
"Terryc" wrote in message

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Plodder wrote:
"Terryc" wrote in message
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Donga wrote:

You are mistaken - Einstein invented the light globe and his first
name was not Phil:

Nope, he "improved" the vacumn incandescent light globe. There were other
around before him. I believe his major claim really is in giving us a
degradable light globe.

Nope again - try Edison...

Well, you are welcome to your version of history.

"In addressing the question "Who invented the incandescent lamp?" historians
Robert Friedel and Paul Israel (1987, 115-117) list 22 inventors of
incandescent lamps prior to Swan and Edison. They conclude that Edison's
version was able to outstrip the others because of a combination of factors:
an effective incandescent material, a higher vacuum than others were able to
achieve and a high resistance lamp that made power distribution from a
centralized source economically viable. Another historian, Thomas Hughes,
has attributed Edison's success to the fact that he invented an entire,
integrated system of electric lighting"

From:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_globe

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Homer Simpson is an impeccable source. You must be wrong.