On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:51:18 -0800, Bruce L. Bergman
wrote:


Edison wasn't an inventor as much as a Pointy Haired Boss -
Developing the lightbulb they didn't follow a systematic method of
coming up with a good filament, Edison just had all his lab assistants
throw every material they could come up with at it, and develop the
solution by brute force elimination. And the first few "sucessful"
filaments really weren't all that good, like carbonized bamboo and
carbonized cotton thread. Tungsten came much later.

-- Bruce --

Developed by Joseph Swan thirty years before Edison's work. He wasn't an
inventor, he was a thief.


Mark Rand
RTFM