
Ruffkin felt that by removing the shade from his standard lamp and standing directly in front of it, he could give the impression of being very creative.
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Ruffkin felt that by removing the shade from his standard lamp and standing directly in front of it, he could give the impression of being very creative.
' A good idea '
Edison: The Early Years,
'To help save the environment, I've replaced all of our lightbulbs with compact fluorescents. Now I'm running the old ones over to the landfill...'
'I think your father's had one of his big ideas...'
Four Common Lampshade Mistakes and How To Avoid Them.
"Someday, these will be installed in every home and business that wants to seem artsy."
'Please Henderson - Not another one of your bright ideas!'
Dept. Sustainable Energy.
"Talk about energy efficient...every lightbulb in this house will outlive you!"
Tedious Romantic.
The Brief collaboration Alfred Nobel And Thomas Edison
"Bad news. Our heads aren't lightbulbs."
'I'm sorry Martha, but I've fallen in love with a light bulb.'
'Quick, Ted, get that one down on paper before you forget it.'
'Just checking that I've turned off the lights, dear!'
'Hey! I've just had a great idea! How about a light bulb...?'
"We've made a few changes."
Thomas Edison's brother Wilmer...couldn't even figure out how to turn on the light.
You need a new reading light
Museum of Art and Science. Monet. "Claude Monet, the father of impressionism, was a master of light. He sometimes painted in series, showing the passage of time with evolving sunlight and shadows." Einstein. "Albert Einstein won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in the dual nature of light, behaving like both a wave and a particle, and how this duality explains the photoelectric effect." I love that! Even though Einstein and Monet both worked with light, the only thing their work has
'So anyways, I got a great deal on a candle factory from this total sucker and,,, hey, watcha reading'
Early Scientific Fraud: Young Thomas Edison Tried to Pass off a Container Filled with Fireflies as an Incandescent Bulb.
"And God said, 'Let there be light.'" "CFL, incandescent or LED?"
Psychiatry. Everything seems so dark and gloomy! I just think you need an outlet!
Still Lives: 'I just need to think of one bright idea and I'll be made for life!'
'Thank goodness you're here!'
Invention of the 3-Way Light Bulb.
Illuminating agricultural production
How cartoons are helping the environment.
"Hey, Federson. Did you hear that someone around here has been stealing everybody's ideas?"
"Solar eclipse."
'Cambridge dons of electrical engineering find a way to do toast without going to the buttery.'
"You're way ahead of your time!"
"My manager says that the new guy is brilliant."
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