Hum Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 Some interesting facts: Draggendrop 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggendrop Veteran Posted September 16, 2016 Veteran Share Posted September 16, 2016 j/k I was taught as a child that 2 Canadians invented the light bulb so that we could cook bacon at night. Quote Henry Woodward was a Canadian inventor and a major pioneer in the development of the incandescent lamp.[1][2] On July 24, 1874, Woodward and his partner, Mathew Evans, a hotel keeper, filed a Canadian patent application on an electric light bulb.[2][3] It was granted on August 3, 1874 as Canadian patent number 3,738.[4] Woodward was a medical student at the time. Their light bulb comprised a glass tube with a large piece of carbon connected to two wires. They filled the tube with inert nitrogen to get a longer burn life in the filament.[1] Their light bulb was fully effective and sufficiently promising; they sold their U.S. Patent 181,613 to Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison obtained an exclusive license to the Canadian patent. Thomas Edison developed his own design of incandescent lamp with a high resistance thin filament of carbon in a high vacuum contained in a tightly sealed glass bulb which had a sufficiently long service life to be commercially practical.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Woodward_(inventor) I know, it's a wiki, but just in good fun.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atcapistrano Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 i haven't seen the video but a corny joke among us Filipinos: we can go into the sun without getting burned if we go in during the night. Draggendrop 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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