Posted in barriers, technology on Mar 21st, 2008 No Comments »
… good enough for our transatlantic friends… but unworthy of practical or scientific men.
Report of a committee of the British Parliament on the idea of an incandescent lamp, 1878
Posted in barriers, general, technology on Jan 29th, 2008 No Comments »
… I do not think there is the slightest chance of its [electricity] competing, in a general way, with gas. There are defects about the electric light which, unless some essential changes take place, must entirely prevent its application to ordinary lighting purposes.
Select Committee on Lighting by Electricity, British House of Commons, 1879
Posted in barriers on Jan 16th, 2008 No Comments »
I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting … not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.
Thomas Edison, 1889
