Re: Tesla

mmeron_at_cars3.uchicago.edu
Date: 07/07/04 

Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 05:48:04 GMT

In article <gakme0pvk59mbtov74onl9nh32pikltquj@4ax.com>, Dave Typinski <nospam@nospam.net> writes:
>mmeron@cars3.uchicago.edu wrote:
>
>>In article <-9ednSHUmZPgUXfdRVn-hQ@bresnan.com>, GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>Robert J. Kolker wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> GreyCloud wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> From the photos I've seen of his laboratories, if that is what people
>>>>> want to call a garage, it wasn't very well endowed. Dupont backed
>>>>> Tesla with quite a bit of money.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Your impressions are superficial. Regardless of how crude his workshop
>>>> was, his -organization- and its imperitives were prototypical of current
>>>> corporate R&D. Relative to the technology of the time, his people were
>>>> well equipped.
>>>>
>>>
>>>All those people just to make a light bulb.
>>
>>No, not just a light bulb. There is a long and impressive list of
>>inventions that came out of Edison's labs.
>
>Not only that, but...
>
>"Just" to make a lightbulb? With an 1870's technology base? The
>first economically viable lightbulbs weren't exactly trivial
>technology for the time. For that matter, neither are today's. I'm
>hard pressed to think of anything else one might purchase for a buck
>fifty that will last as long while handling the same power at the same
>temperature as does "just" a plain, boring, incandescent lightbulb.
>--
Good point, very good point. That's a classic case of "familiarity
breeds contempt" here.

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