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WCDT strips 4226 to 4230 (23rd to 27th March 2020)
BenRG:
I really have a feeling that Millie is going to wake up and say: "Oh no! Not again!"
My big hope is that Brun doesn't say something similar!
Tova:
You can't fool us. We all know that you are now hoping for exactly that. :wink:
shanejayell:
That was cute. :-D
questionablydiscontent:
Silly Elliot! Everyone knows that Joseph Swan invented the lightbulb and then Thomas Edison made a slightly better one, then set up a company with Swan and bankrupted him like a total asshole. :psyduck:
Thrudd:
--- Quote from: questionablydiscontent on 25 Mar 2020, 09:12 ---Silly Elliot! Everyone knows that Joseph Swan invented the lightbulb and then Thomas Edison made a slightly better one, then set up a company with Swan and bankrupted him like a total asshole. :psyduck:
--- End quote ---
His namesake company still are - ass-holes that is.
They donate a chunk of cash regularly to the Smithsonian [huge tax write-off for what is effectively advertising] so they get to dictate how and what stuff is presented.
Last time I was there, there was no mention of Swan or anybody else involved with the incandescent light-bulb and ignored any technology research not US centric - there was no mention of LED or EL lighting systems at all, just some impractical basic research projects from the Edison sponsored labs.
Tesla is in some dark back corner because AC power can't be fully ignored but they try.
With all the tearing down of statues and memorials of famous people who did some really infamous things, it makes me wonder just how much longer we have to wait until Edison is finally kicked down off his self erected pedestal and the real inventors are given their due recognition?
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