Thursday, October 21, 2010

This day in Electrical History

On October 21, 1879 Thomas Edison created a light bulb that lasted 13.5 hours.

Without this invention, we'd still be lighting candles and lamps every night (and putting up with all that smoke). The only downside is now it's harder to see the stars in the sky from all the light cities put out!

Here's a picture of the earth at night taken by NASA. Check out those big cities! Shame about the places with no lights yet.

13 comments:

  1. very informative post. Thanks!

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  2. Can't imagine living without electricity these days. This picture really puts our reliance on electricity in perspective!

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  3. that is kinda awesome I might use it as wallpaper

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  4. check out my post about france's electricity lol

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  5. Damn, thats crazy. Cool stuff. :)

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  6. wow, that's crazy to think about. check out my blog!

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  7. As much as I love electricity, I wish that there was a way I could see the stars a bit more clearly...

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  8. oh wow thats it?? we have bulbs that last us for years now

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  9. it's easy .... for a day and a half...

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  10. Looking at it again, it's pretty crazy how much light is visible on Hawaii when how small it is

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  11. it'S awkward, how bright north america and central europe are, compard to for example africa or asia...

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