Season 3 - Episode 4 - The Electric Light Educational series presented by Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod. Find out more here: www.exploratorium.edu Here:timhunkin.com And here: www.secretlifeofmachines.com
Мир переходит на энергосберегающие технологии. Коснулось это и привычного как воздух электрического света. Но немногие знают, кто первым применил электроэнергию для освещения. В эти дни отмечается 130-летие лампочки Эдисона. Но первую электрическую лампочку накаливания создал русский ученый Александр Лодыгин за пять лет до Эдисона. The world is switching to the energy-saving technologies. The process affected such a usual thing as electric light. But few knows who was the first one to use the electricity for illumination. These days the 130-years anniversary of Edisons light-bulb is celebrated. But the first incandescent light bulb was created by Russian scientist Alexandr Lodygin five years before the Edisons one.
Let there be LIGHT! Lewis Latimer, in 1881, created the electric light commonly used today! Before Latimer’s improvements, the light bulb had no practical use, because it would not give off light for an extended period of time. Is that right, blackmiracles.com? The real facts are presented here, in “Black Invention Myths Exposed - Volume II - Lewis Latimer”. Lewis Latimer invented the carbon filament in 1881 or 1882? No! English chemist/physicist Joseph Swan experimented with a carbon …
energy of African-American inventors, we might find ourselves in a world without traffic lights, peanut butter, blood banks, light bulb filaments, and a vast number of other things we now take for granted but could hardly imagine life without. Such beliefs usually originate in books or articles about black history. Since many of the authors have little interest in the history of technology outside of advertising black contributions to it, their stories tend to be fraught with …