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[JPSmit]

Hmmmm

 

[Gliderman8]

The technology was available then but they didn't have the internet. It's like the TV.... it was developed in the 1800's but they had no place to plug it in.

 

[Boink]

The technology was available then but they didn't have the internet. It's like the TV.... it was developed in the 1800's but they had no place to plug it in.

:highly_amused:

 

[AngliaGT]

I used to tell my kids that Abraham Lincoln watched TV by candlelight,
just to see if they were paying attention.

 

[JPSmit]

I used to tell my kids that Abraham Lincoln watched TV by candlelight,
just to see if they were paying attention.

plugged it into a current bush?

 

[Popeye]

plugged it into a current bush?

Nope, a flying kite with a key... Current was not quantified until 1881: "ampere (n.) 1881, "the current that one volt can send through a resistance of one ohm," from French ampère, named for French physicist André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836). Adopted by the Electric Congress at Paris in 1881. Shortened form amp is attested from 1886."

Having said that, I realize the official unit for current comes well after it's discovery. And, what a internet rabbit hole this brought me to : Electricity was "known" for a long time; Egyptian texts from 2750 BC mention it found it in some fish. Franklin few a kite in 1752. Etc. First battery is 1800, by appropriately named Alessandro Volta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity

Cool.

Which brings me to a question the internet could not answer for me: how do you trim a current bush?

 

[John Turney]

Which brings me to a question the internet could not answer for me: how do you trim a current bush?

With a trimmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimmer_(electronics)

 

[Popeye]

But of course!!

 

[Boink]

Reminds me, I just bought one of these (particularly since I already have a number of Makita batteries):

As for a current bush, it's mostly a job for a simple pruner.

 

[JPSmit]

so to clarify Lincoln watched TV by candlelight at ohm?

 

[Popeye]

so to clarify Lincoln watched TV by candlelight at ohm?

Except not very clearly. (It was an old TV.)