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Drake Anthony Recreates the Mechanical Bulb First Seen in 1675 – TechEBlog

https://www.techeblog.com/drake-anthony-styropyro-mechanical-bulb-barometric-light/
30•rbanffy•6d ago

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eig•6d ago
This blog post is essentially a summary of the original video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y-9GbsS9Fg

bediger4000•6d ago
To my mind, this blog post had the same stilted, mechanical feel that those all talk YouTube commercials have, even when they're in an Australian accent. Nothing very bad or very good, just mid phrasing and vocabulary.
deflator•6d ago
Crummy blog crashed my browser tab with all the nonsense it loaded
ck2•1h ago
for a moment I thought this was going to be about arc-lights in the 1800s that mechanically touch electrodes and then draw apart

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_lamp

it's amazing how far we've come

think about Benjamin Franklin twenty-five years before Declaration of Independence naming the first "battery" (out of the concept of lined-up artillery) by connecting a series of lynden jars (basically capacitors) - he also invented the concept of +/- positive and negative

now we've got space telescopes and probes leaving the solar system

imagine what's coming in another 300 years

ambicapter•52m ago
> naming the first "battery" (out of the concept of lined-up artillery)

That's an amazing fun fact.

throwway120385•3m ago
Another fun fact is that it was impossible to deduce from any of Ben Franklin's experiments what material was transferred and what material remained in place to give rise to "charge" as we think of it. So he picked a convention that we've continued to use even after we learned that his negative charges were the material that gets transferred by friction.
NegativeLatency•18m ago
Just go watch the YouTube video, this blog rips off YouTube content.
Wistar•6m ago
Bogus blog shenanigans aside, Drake Anthony is a treasure.

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Drake Anthony Recreates the Mechanical Bulb First Seen in 1675 – TechEBlog

https://www.techeblog.com/drake-anthony-styropyro-mechanical-bulb-barometric-light/
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