[LINK] GE Announces Advancement in Incandescent
Stewart Fist
stewart_fist at optusnet.com.au
Wed Feb 28 14:24:04 AEDT 2007
Ivan asks
> Whatever happened to Sir Humphry Davy's invention of the platinum
> filament back in 1801,
It probably went the way of the platinum stove pipe. Until the early part
of the 20th century, platinum was a cheap metal used to coat iron to stop
corrosion.
People made fortunes later scavanging old rubbish dumps and picking out all
those shiny stove pipes from the old wood stoves.
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