First Internet message and ...

[Dave Wade]

I believe that Edison invented the filament bulb with a Tungsten Filament, but Joseph Swan's carbon filament bulb pre-dated this.
However Edison was doing so well in his court case, than rather than wait for the result, he simply bought out Swan thus ending the debate....

Dave
G4UGM
ps. what didn't they use to light the fire on the first public railway (Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1825)
pps. For a bonus point where did the above railway start and end...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of TeoZ via cctalk
> Sent: 27 November 2019 02:10
> To: Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-
> Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Subject: Re: First Internet message and ...
> 
> Patents are generally used to document who invented what first. Commercial
> success building on old research and patents tends to be what is remembered.
> 
> So what if some guy in 1761 heated up a wire until it glowed releasing light, it
> took many people over a long time to come up with a usable cheap light bulb
> design and the inventions that brought electricity into cities and peoples houses
> to power those bulbs that people will remember.
> 
> The only reason Apple sold so many Apple II's was because some software
> designer came out with Visicalc. So many machines were sold that they ended
> up cheap enough and useful enough to end up in schools and homes where
> before they were only sold to corporations. IBM's release of the PC with open
> architecture and all the people who cloned it and made software and hardware
> for it that IBM never envisioned is the reason X86/X64 is so dominant not that is
> was the first or the best.
> 
> The people who invented something epic tend to not have commercial success
> because pretty much most ground breaking patents tend to expire before they
> truly become useful and because of the need for other inventions to make them
> commercially usable.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 8:18 PM
> To: Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
> Subject: Re: First Internet message and ...
> 
> On 11/26/19 12:48 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
> > On 11/26/19 1:32 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> >> I figure the record will finally be set straight after all of the
> >> people involved at time cited are dead.
> >>
> >> Such is history.
> >>
> >
> > You mean like how history says Columbus discovered America...
> 
> And Edison invented the incandescent lamp.
> 
> --Chuck