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Happy Birthday, Thomas Edison!
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recordo
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Happy Birthday, Thomas Edison!
None of us would be here discussing our favourite topic without Thomas Edison, who would have been 165 today!
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Re: Happy Birthday, Thomas Edison!
Not here yet - - it's still February 10th!
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recordo
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Re: Happy Birthday, Thomas Edison!
George, I'm not going to start a debate about Australia being ahead of the US!!!
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Re: Happy Birthday, Thomas Edison!
I second Happy birthday at 3am on February 11th ( will be asleep as I have to be at work by 8am 
Wanted to share my favorite Edison drawing, the vampire light bulb from 1879 . Sadly for you conformists, which Edison never belonged to, (many of you who love phonographs would be yelling at him) It is impossible as perpetual motion!!!) We goths consider him a grandfather of that subculture. Edison thought outside the box, he loved Victor Hugo and Poe, and loved to play music backwards, and was the first to publish Frankenstein in movie form and that is just a start. Anyway, I thank Mr. Edison for being outside the box, and the 1093 patents and the who know how many other odd non patented inventions!!!
Happy Birthday Mr. Edison!!!!!
Wanted to share my favorite Edison drawing, the vampire light bulb from 1879 . Sadly for you conformists, which Edison never belonged to, (many of you who love phonographs would be yelling at him) It is impossible as perpetual motion!!!) We goths consider him a grandfather of that subculture. Edison thought outside the box, he loved Victor Hugo and Poe, and loved to play music backwards, and was the first to publish Frankenstein in movie form and that is just a start. Anyway, I thank Mr. Edison for being outside the box, and the 1093 patents and the who know how many other odd non patented inventions!!! Happy Birthday Mr. Edison!!!!!
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Re: Happy Birthday, Thomas Edison!
Not to burst any one’s bubble here ‘bout ol’ Tommy E, but he DID NOT invent the light bulb.
As any one who lives north of the 49th parallel knows, Edison purchased the light bulb patent from a Canadian inventor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Woodward_(inventor))
Ol’ Tommy boy was just some Johnny-Come-Lately that exploited other people’s ideas with mountains of cash ... which he was quite renowned to do.
I guess that’s a reality we’ll never see mentioned in the Smithsonian Museum.
(What a !@$#$ he was)
A Concerned Canuck
As any one who lives north of the 49th parallel knows, Edison purchased the light bulb patent from a Canadian inventor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Woodward_(inventor))
Ol’ Tommy boy was just some Johnny-Come-Lately that exploited other people’s ideas with mountains of cash ... which he was quite renowned to do.
I guess that’s a reality we’ll never see mentioned in the Smithsonian Museum.
(What a !@$#$ he was)
A Concerned Canuck
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Re: Happy Birthday, Thomas Edison!
Happy B-Day, Tommy E!
If only I knew someone that has one of your psycho-phones, I could could call you up. But this'll have to do I guess.
If only I knew someone that has one of your psycho-phones, I could could call you up. But this'll have to do I guess.
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recordo
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Re: Happy Birthday, Thomas Edison!
Good one - Sir Lot-a-Wind - great way to celebrate Edison's birthday by calling him a !@#$...Sir Wind-A-Lot wrote: I guess that’s a reality we’ll never see mentioned in the Smithsonian Museum.
(What a !@#$ he was)
A Concerned Canuck
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Re: Happy Birthday, Thomas Edison!
Recordo----you are correct and I support wholeheartedly your intentions for doing so, but this "man" is not worthy of any dignified response. He just wants attention.recordo wrote:Good one - Sir Lot-a-Wind - great way to celebrate Edison's birthday by calling him a !@#$...Sir Wind-A-Lot wrote: I guess that’s a reality we’ll never see mentioned in the Smithsonian Museum.
(What a !@#$ he was)
A Concerned Canuck
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antique1973
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Re: Happy Birthday, Thomas Edison!
It clearly states in the article that Woodward's contraption, although a precursor, could not
be considered a functional light bulb.
be considered a functional light bulb.
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Re: Happy Birthday, Thomas Edison!
Happy birthday TA.... From a fellow that was born and raised in New Jersey where Mr. Edison had plants in West Orange, Newark, Menlo Park, etc. and where he put thousands of people to work. What a concept - inventing things and then manufacturing them right here in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! Not in China like Apple...... Ouch, sorry......