How Many People Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb on the Forum?

Disaster looms, if lightbulb is wrong we'll have to ban lighthouse and lightship as well. And I shall never have another light bulb moment again.

This will have to change as well:

Dave

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...meanwhile, a recent ex-president claims that reports of dead and sick lightbulbs are fake news. Regular washing in dilute bleach will prevent them from getting sick or dying.

I thought Cragside laid claim to being the first house in the world to be lit by electricity (albeit using Swan’s bulbs/lamps).

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I read an interesting factoid about the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Bids were requested for lighting and power for the exposition from Edision and Westinghouse.

At the time, Edison controlled the patent on the incandescent light bulb, and so Westinghouse had to create their own unique light bulb in order to place their bid.

Westinghouse won the bid by a very large margin, and between Westinghouse's 3-phase display and the Westinghoue 3-phase generators and distribution for all of the lighting and power the exposition, this basically laid to rest which system would become the dominant power system in the world (ie: the question of which system to use: Edison and his DC system, or Westinghous/Tesla with their modern 3-phase system).

After the electrification of Niagra Falls, the Edison system was no longer in contention for any serious electrical uses.

Westinghouse was purchases by Eaton (not too many years ago), and many of the Eaton products are basically moderized versions of what was demonstrated at the Exposition in 1893.

No animals were harmed in the making of this post, and hopefully some whales were saved.

Edit:  Edison did electrocute an elephant in a horrible attempt to discredit the Westinghouse system, and I must say, Edison did not have much of a conscience.  You can still find that terrible video online.

Edison should have been jailed for that stunt.

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You are all missing the point of using environmentally friendly, organic, bioluminescent, androgynous bulb genera.
You may have to wait a while...
this

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antonyevans/glowing-plants-natural-lighting-with-no-electricit/description

pgk

A few hundred to discuss all the ways, right and wrong, that it should be done, and one to actually change the bulb while the rest are discussing it.

Surely, thats normal for this forum, isn;t it?

Haha. I had forgotten about that. Thanks. I should do this stuff for a living. Seems particularly relevant today with the current thread on Colchester Vs Warco lightbulbs, er I mean lamps, no wait, lathes... Some things never change.

Edited By Hopper on 12/03/2022 12:00:16

Hi, begging everyone's pardon, but I always thought a lamp is a device that gives light by burning oil with a wick, or a gas with a mantle or an electric bulb with a holder and shade or a cover, so it's a bulb that needs changing in an electric lamp when it fails, unless you like throwing the whole lamp out and buying a new one.

Regards Nick.

My dad's shop (into the early 80s) had a very large light bulb in one of the junk rooms upstairs. Said bulb had a very large black, carbon, filament. It still worked, but didn't get used much.

I have some Ediswan transistors somewhere. testament to the two men's cooperation.

Neil

But millions of electrons were mildly inconvienenced

Being brought up in Woking, Surrey I well remember the Co-Operative building, a modern looking structure built in the late 30's but now long gone. It had I think three floors and a stair case surrounding the stair well from the top floor to the basement and during WW2 the good citizens of Woking were encouraged to bring in their dud light bulbs and drop them from the top floor down onto the tiled flooring below making a very satisfactory bang. If I remember correctly there was also a swastika marked out on the floor used as a target. Can you just imagine what Health and Safety would say about this sort of thing now!

And suddenly we find someone has crept in at some point a few pages back and discreetly replaced the failed component with its identity crisis, all alone, because all the rest of us were too busy discussing the task actually to perform it.....!

Now, that's entertainment, that is. Netflux? Interwebs? Who needs 'em?

Would this have been an effort to separate the glass and the brass/metal bases for wartime recycling?

And the Tungsten, which is needed for making HSS and armour piercing shells.

I wonder if the swastika was already part of the building? Fylfot crosses were perfectly respectable decorations until the far-right brought the symbol into massive disrepute.

Health and Safety wouldn't mind bulb dropping provided reasonable precautions were taken to keep it safe. It's irresponsible slack Alice events they don't like. Not good for organisers to be over-confident chumps who just do stuff without identifying and mitigating the risks.

Dave

I was just wondering today when electricity started its journey to becoming essential for normal life. Particularly in relation to the telephone and in my village. Although the electricity and phone lines march up the lane on the same poles for some reason at the edge of my garden they diverge and come in on different sides necessitating two poles one each side. So which came first and why diverge at this point? The electricity people trim the trees their side but the phone line used them as support - until Eunice. So currently no wire and using a BT supplied mobile minihub. We didn't get piped water until the '30s so imagine electricity came later, but would people have installed a phone while still reading by oil lamp?