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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 11:16 AM EDT |
There's also some errors in this post :)
Metal filaments would vaporize
rather fast ...
I'm not sure which metal filaments you are talking about
when you say they would evaporate quickly. Tungsten metal filaments have been
used in incandescent bulbs for generations, and they last just
fine.
...(even at room
temperature, metals are actually a liquid -
they flow, just very slow).
Solidified metals are not liquid - they
have a true crystalline structure, they are not amorphous like a liquid, or
glass.
Carbon is also cheaper than the use of platinum as used in
other lights.
Other lights of Edison's time used Pt, or modern lights? I
don't know of any current incandescent lights that use platinum. Too expensive
;). It's tungsten nowadays.
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| Authored by: albert on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 11:18 AM EDT |
.. he gave us, among many other things, the 3-phase alternating current system,
which revolutionized industry, commerce, and our personal lives. He didn't have
to 'stand on the shoulders of giants', he 'peeked past the giants who were
blocking the light' (to paraphrase Petr Beckmann)
Edison was the Bill Gates of his day. Tesla was the _________ of his. I'm still
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