24 Feb
2003
24 Feb
'03
16:00
The 03.02.24 at 13:38, Paul Uiterlinden wrote:
It's been an interesting excercize, though not very fruitfull.
:-) My mother tells an anecdote of Edison. He had to test hundred of materials for the filament of the electric bulb lamp he was inventing, but all of them burnt too soon. Someone told him he had failed, and he replied that no, he had learnt that those hundreds of materials were no good for the task. I read somewhere the one that finally worked was made from carbonized sugar cane fibers! -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson