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By *erbyDalesCpl OP Couple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

Edison Screw. Just why?

(Apart from the fact you invented it, natch!)

There was a time when all you had to decide was 40 or 60W...

Mr ddc

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

"Edison Screw. Just why?

(Apart from the fact you invented it, natch!)

There was a time when all you had to decide was 40 or 60W...

Mr ddc"

still watching.....

p.s so how did the coconut pie go?

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By *erbyDalesCpl OP Couple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

"Edison Screw. Just why?

(Apart from the fact you invented it, natch!)

There was a time when all you had to decide was 40 or 60W...

Mr ddc

still watching.....

p.s so how did the coconut pie go? "

Very well thanks, perfect with the Malibu cream! Good call, thanks for the idea

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

He didn't invent the light bulb, or more correctly, the electric lamp, nor did he invent the screw thread.

So, screw Edison.

(Though I do think a screw thread on a lamp is far better than the spring loaded bayonet used in most domestic lighting)

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By *erbyDalesCpl OP Couple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

(Though I do think a screw thread on a lamp is far better than the spring loaded bayonet used in most domestic lighting)"

I think the bayonet came from vehicles, and other places where vibration resistance is important, so obviously for bedroom lights....

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

From my understanding and researches, Edison was a pretty nast unscrupulous bastard. He's credited with inventing loads of things, but in reality he invented little or nothing.

He was good at spotting ideas, which he did improve on and then patented. He had teams of people scouring round for inventions, which he then patented leaving the original inventors un rewarded.

I guess at best, he was a ruthless entrepreneur

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By *hite SnakeMan
over a year ago

leeds

The lightbulb was actually invented by Joseph Swan from Gateshead he had the first house in the world to be lit by electricity.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

I have trouble with the bayonet mount. I think it's because I'm short and reaching up can be difficult.

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By *eMontresMan
over a year ago

Halesowen

"The lightbulb was actually invented by Joseph Swan from Gateshead he had the first house in the world to be lit by electricity."

It depends on how far back you want to go. Alessandro Volta (who's birthday it was this week) invented the battery and passed an electric current through copper wire, which glowed. This was the first ever recording of man made production of light from electricity.

Humphry Davy used Volta's electric piles connected in series to produce high voltage sufficient to make a spark jump between two electrode, giving the electric arc lamp.

Warren de la Rue produced the first recognisable electric incandescent lamp using a platinum filament in an evacuated glass bulb.

Joseph Swan, made it cheaper by using carbonated cotton for the filament.

Everything is derivative

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