A tom cat and a tabby cat were courting on a back fence at night.
The tom leaned over to the tabby with pent up passion and purred... "I'll die for you"
The tabby gazed at him from under lowered eye lids and asked, "How many times?".
Edison incandescent lamp filament patentIn 1899, Thomas A. Edison was issued a patent for his “Filament for Incandescent Lamps, and Process of Manufacturing Same” (U.S. No. 626,460). “I form a filament of highly-refractory non-conducting material which is preferably porous, and incorporate therein isolated particles of carbon, so as to produce spark gaps between the particles, whereby high-tension currents, either alternating, continuous, or intermittent, will be conducted from particle to particle of the carbon to raise the filament to incandescence. ... I prefer to use ... an oxid or oxids of the rare earths—such as the oxid of zirconium, thorium and others. ... I prefer to admix ... a carbonizable organic compound—such as a solution of sugar, asphalt or tartrate of the oxid itself” which will be carbonized.« |
