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minus-squaredustyData@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoYou can create light with electricity with two carbon rods to make an arc light. It was literally the first electric light source and in widespread use for a long while, along with incandescent bulbs.
minus-squareComment105@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoYou just invented cumbersome fire. Ugh ugh. No good.
minus-squaredustyData@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 year agoAnd we illuminated streets and factories with that for half a century.
minus-squareComment105@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI’m a caveman, I have night vision, why need pretty lamps?
You can create light with electricity with two carbon rods to make an arc light. It was literally the first electric light source and in widespread use for a long while, along with incandescent bulbs.
You just invented cumbersome fire. Ugh ugh. No good.
And we illuminated streets and factories with that for half a century.
I’m a caveman, I have night vision, why need pretty lamps?