[LINK] GE Announces Advancement in Incandescent Technology

[Craig Sanders]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 11:25:41AM +1100, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> No need to be snide, Craig.

sorry, forgot that there were US-ians present.  no offence intended.

> 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.

yeah, there's no doubt that he was an important and influential figure in
the commercialisation and popularisation of various technologies (and thus
of our current lifestle).

i've just got the usual techies distaste for marketing people and their
complete disregard for the truth when it gets in the way of a good story
or a sale.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>

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