My question is: why is it that

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

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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 said:

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

Theo Bekkers said:

cfsmtb said:

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 said:

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.

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Donga said:

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...

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Donga said:

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.

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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...

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>Donga wrote:

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

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>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.

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Nope again - try Edison...

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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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>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

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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.

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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.

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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 [censored] in it.

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

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>>Donga wrote:

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

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>>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.

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> Nope again - try Edison...

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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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