1880 – Edison continued to improved his lightbulb until it could last for
over 1200 hours using a bamboo-derived filament.
1903 – Willis Whitnew invented a filament that would not make the inside of
a lightbulb turn dark. It was a metal-coated carbon filament (a predecessor
to the tungsten filament).
The basic idea of the incandescent lightbulb is to have a filament (attatched
to an electrical contact) fully enclosed in an evacuated (a vacuum) glass envelope.
An electric current is passed through the electrical contact and in turn along
the filament which causes the filament to heat up, and eventually to a high
enough temperature to give of usuable light. However changing the type of filament
and and introduction of inert gases were the major changes in the design, from
it’s inital commercial success.
I keep seeing bloggers promising light blogging but they never
keep their promises. So I have filled the gap by doing some actual light blogging.
Even Catholic Light which
you would expect to cover Catholic Lighting never does.
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I find WATT you are doing to be SHOCKing. I AM PEREsonally reVOLTed and fOHMing at the mouth. Stick to CURRENT events.
Sorry I will have to offer RESISTANCE to your POWERful words that our beyond your O’SCOPE. In my CAPACITANCE as a punster I will have to knock that CHIP off your shoulders and TRANSFORMER you and then INDUCT you to repent of your SHORT sighted outburst and BREAKER your resolve. In the whole SCHEMATIC of things I also find your words conFUSEing and not very PROBEing. I will never VOLT for you even after you have done the publicity CIRCUIT. But I will relax not and just go with the ELECTRON flow.
Both of you have obviously missed the real point here: To G.E. or not to G.E., that is the question!
and you have completely missed the heresy of fluorescence! to say nothing of the deleterious effect on the spirit of standard lighting, which totally eliminates the part of the spectrum God designed for the prevention of depression. only full-spectrub incandescent bulbs are truly orthodox.
Thanks for finally illuminating us on this issue. For your next project, you could post a list of those amusing places around the country that still have a 100 year-old bulb burning.
If not for my poor artistic skills I would draw you a beer Jeff 😉
That’s OK a badly drawn beer is also fine by me.
I would like to have a picture of Willis Whitnew, Could youy please e-mail me one. Thank you