On Monday 08 December 2003 05:26 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
>DJ Ohh you got me going there.
>DJ As with so many other of Edison's 'inventions' the light bulb was not
> invented DJ by Edison at all.
>DJ The city of Newcastle in England had public electric lighting before
> Edison DJ 'invented' the lightbulb.
>DJ What Edison did do was perfect a longer lasting filament for the
> electric DJ lightbulb.
Off topic, so I apologize in advance, but if you really want to get a real eye
opener, go to google and do "tesla vs edison" (or vice versa).
Both deserve kudos, but while Edison is a "nuts and bolts/trial and error"
kind of guy, well...Tesla is the "wiley coyote" suuuuppppeeeerrrr genius!
:-)
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