24 Feb
2003
24 Feb
'03
20:32
On Monday 24 February 2003 17:00, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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.
Quite true!
I read somewhere the one that finally worked was made from carbonized sugar cane fibers!
I like sugar canes better caramelized. Carbonized seems a bit over-done to me! :-) Paul.