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My question is: why is it that
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"Terryc" wrote in message ... Plodder wrote: "Terryc" wrote in message ... 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. Exactly what I said. 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 Exactly what I said, vacumn incandescents degrade as the metal in the filament boils off. 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" Which is not inventing the light globe. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_globe Well, that explains a lot. It is a toss up betweem Microsoft Encarta and Wikipedia as to which has the most crap in it. |
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My question is: why is it that
And I believe Nik Tesla had some non-incandescent lights pretty early on too. Always did fancy making myself a little Tesla coil to take care of some neighbouring cats DB -- Duracell Bunny |
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My question is: why is it that
"Donga" wrote in message oups.com... On Mar 31, 7:57 am, "Plodder" wrote: "Terryc" wrote in message ... Plodder wrote: "Terryc" wrote in message ... 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...- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Homer Simpson is an impeccable source. You must be wrong. D'OH! If I'd known your source I would have kept schtumm... |
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