And away we go to the toothpick factory
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And away we go to the toothpick factory
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And George Westinghouse never electrocuted an elephant as a marketing gimmick.
Frying Dumbo was not a good PR move for Edison. Just ‘sayin!
Sirhr
Turkish "gun safety" strikes yet again...
Turks and gun safety is just like Indians and electrical safety. In any typical Indian residential neighborhood, you will see titantic cobwebs of uninsulated high current wiring stretching all over the place, many of them lower than adult height and across walkways or even on the ground. Just naked cables with hundreds of amps running through. And worse, many residents who do not want to sign up for paid electrical service will splice lines from the nearest transformers. You will routinely see men wearing no protective clothing or gloves climb onto massive transformer nests and string wiring from them into nearby residences while the power is active. That is also done using the caternary lines from railways if a railway is close by. Electrocution is the number one cause of accidental deaths in India. Thousands of fatal and often fiery and spectacular electrocutions nationwide every year.
I know where one of these old wagons is. It's not for sale and is rotting away. It was given to the lady by her grandfather who died a short time later. They put a 100+ thousand on it and then it had some kind of problem and got parked. It would take the better part of a day to clear the growth on it. Kudzu has a good grip on it
Turkish "gun safety" strikes yet again...They have absolutely shit for brains when it comes to RESPONSIBLE firearms handling. Attending a Turkish wedding or any large party is more hazardous than taking all of the mRNA shots. There are ALWAYS multiple drunk and high dumbfucks shooting randomly everywhere or doing action movie poses with loaded guns while stumbling around inebriated to the gills. And communities nearby also have to worry about projectiles raining down.
Turks and gun safety is just like Indians and electrical safety. In any typical Indian residential neighborhood, you will see titantic cobwebs of uninsulated high current wiring stretching all over the place, many of them lower than adult height and across walkways or even on the ground. Just naked cables with hundreds of amps running through. And worse, many residents who do not want to sign up for paid electrical service will splice lines from the nearest transformers. You will routinely see men wearing no protective clothing or gloves climb onto massive transformer nests and string wiring from them into nearby residences while the power is active. That is also done using the caternary lines from railways if a railway is close by. Electrocution is the number one cause of accidental deaths in India. Thousands of fatal and often fiery and spectacular electrocutions nationwide every year.
Sirhr
I know they changed the name of edison electric to general electric, not to be confused with the light bulb company that went to be ConEd.
I hope he was still alive when they took his name off the building.
Man was not an inventor of anything, he was a marketing man. He did not invent the light bulb, he got lucky after a thousand tries and found a "practical" light bulb. He rode that horse all the way to the end, living off others ideas he put his name on. DC what a stupid idea to light a world.
I read a story when Tesla went to Westinghouse to push AC, Westinghouse went to him and said your going to ruin the company with your payments for your inventions, Tesla said, ok, you can have them. Not sure if that is accurate or not, but I do know Tesla died penny-less in a hotel that Westinghouse was paying for.
Real talent is generally half a bubble off plumb, you see fakes with other fakes like Edison, playing it big.
Parked next to this at the grocery store one day.
Leaving a restaurant after a business lunch, found this parked behind me.
About a year later, I came up behind the same car about a mile from the restaurant. Suspected that I knew whose car it was, IM'd the guy but he denied it.
Tesla had been shocked by so much electricity he claims to have time traveled to the future. He also had a pigeon for a partner. So…yeah. A smidge nuts. Genius regardless.
First maybe he did travel to the future, we will never know….
second there are some pigeon lovers on this very board…..
so who’s crazy?
Those shelf roads in the San Juan's can certainly make you pucker and have been on a fair amount of them.
If lightning hit a methane tank or some kind of Compressed bio gas and lit it off.... It's like lighting off a BLU-82 in a field!
Well, I am sure all those green Socialist Oxford college students and professors are going to claim that there was no carbon released... you know... it was just recycling. It's all right. Nothing to see here. It's green! Green power is so safe and earth friendly! Wonder what the carbon footprint to rebuild the green plant is... because you aren't rebuilding it with Priuses and Kale.
Sirhr
That is the way almost every country operates in the research and development area. The person that makes the discovery may get a mention and a bonus but the company gets the title.
Don't like that then they can open their own lab/workshop and fund it themselves.
