[LINK] GE Announces Advancement in Incandescent Technology

[Jan Whitaker]

At 11:41 PM 27/02/2007, Craig Sanders wrote:
>since Edison rewrote history in his relentless self-promotion (the
>thing he was best at).
>
>but don't mention it when any americans can hear. they might take
>offense if it is revealed to them that he wasn't entirely the great man
>he promoted himself to be. anyway, he must have invented all that stuff
>- he was an american, and americans invented everything worthwhile.

No need to be snide, Craig.

If you're ever in Ft Myers Florida or whatever the town was in New 
Jersey where he worked, it's worth going to the Edison Museum. His 
accomplishments were incredible. Nit pick about the first person to 
do x or y, you can't argue with the range of applications he came up 
with for incandescent light (movies), networked town electricity, 
mechanical sound production to name a few. The research he was 
involved in for use of plant materials in production was amazing as well.

Jan


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