Am I just thick or what???

[millwall ken]

Hi all,
I've been browsing though this forum with much interest tonight, as I ain't been able to as much as I'd like to have recently due to work and the domestic situation - which is another story.
Anyway, I degress. As I've said, I've been glancing though some of the various posting on the forum, and looking at the content of some of them, I feel like its my first day at big school being presented with an a-level exam paper!!! Now I know that our trade is many and varied, but it does seem to me that some contributors to this forum REALLY do need to get out more.
Now, I'm about as far from Einstein, Newton and Faraday as you can get but I ain't the village idiot either...
Anyone feel the same?

 

[Scratch Music]

That should be 'digress' I believe.....

 

[Sparks-R-Us]

[SIZE=+1]The first electric light was made in 1800 by Humphry Davy, an English scientist. He experimented with electricity and invented an electric battery. When he connected wires to his battery and a piece of carbon, the carbon glowed, producing light. This is called an electric arc. [/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Much later, in 1860, the English physicist Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (1828-1914) was determined to devise a practical, long-lasting electric light. He found that a carbon paper filament worked well, but burned up quickly. In 1878, he demonstrated his new electric lamps in Newcastle, England. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]In 1877, the American Charles Francis Brush manufactured some carbon arcs to light a public square in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. These arcs were used on a few streets, in a few large office buildings, and even some stores. Electric lights were only used by a few people. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]The inventor Thomas Alva Edison (in the USA) experimented with thousands of different filaments to find just the right materials to glow well and be long-lasting. In 1879, Edison discovered that a carbon filament in an oxygen-free bulb glowed but did not burn up for 40 hours. Edison eventually produced a bulb that could glow for over 1500 hours. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]Lewis Howard Latimer (1848-1928) improved the bulb by inventing a carbon filament (patented in 1881); Latimer was a member of Edison's research team, which was called "Edison's Pioneers." In 1882, Latimer developed and patented a method of manufacturing his carbon filaments. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]In 1903, Willis R. Whitney invented a treatment for the filament so that it wouldn't darken the inside of the bulb as it glowed. In 1910, William David Coolidge (1873-1975) invented a tungsten filament which lasted even longer than the older filaments. The incandescent bulb revolutionized the world. [/SIZE]

 

[telectrix]

and then came the global warming gestapo and banned them.

 

[nick611]

Hi all,
I've been browsing though this forum with much interest tonight, as I ain't been able to as much as I'd like to have recently due to work and the domestic situation - which is another story.
Anyway, I degress. As I've said, I've been glancing though some of the various posting on the forum, and looking at the content of some of them, I feel like its my first day at big school being presented with an a-level exam paper!!! Now I know that our trade is many and varied, but it does seem to me that some contributors to this forum REALLY do need to get out more.
Now, I'm about as far from Einstein, Newton and Faraday as you can get but I ain't the village idiot either...
Anyone feel the same?

like you said ken this lot will talk you out of anything if you let them. but i think their views are very intelligent if sometimes a little anul. most of us know whats safe if not 110% to the letter of the law. i find this forum very informative

 

[sbrown2]

Interesting view. I personally never want to sit in a classroom again. Although I've no doubt I may have to. As has been expressed you go from the classroom professionalism to the work place professionalism. I can tell you I am a long way from the former. I think I can remember V=IxR!!!!!!!!!