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by Janet Spencer On October 21, 1879, Thomas Edison invented the first light bulb of practical value when he discovered that carbonized cotton filaments would burn for 40 hours in a vacuum inside a glass bulb. Come along with Tidbits as we turn on the lights!

LIGHT BULB FACTS • Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb. He merely improved it. The search for electric lighting had begun some fifty years before Edison ever sat down to work on the problem, but all methods either burned out too fast or emitted poisonous gasses.

• In 1878 Edison promised that in six weeks he would solve the problem of the incandescent light. Fourteen weeks and 1,600 experiments later, he discovered that cotton thread that had been burned to ash was the best filament to use in the vacuum of a light bulb.

• Edison subsequently invented the power plant and an electrical distribution system that made electricity widely available.

The power company he started is General Electric.

• Filaments in modern incandescent light bulbs are made from a coiled thread of tungsten that’s 21 inches long and half as thick as a human hair.

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Hope Lutheran Church Hope Lutheran's 8th Annual Vendor Show, Bake Sale and Luncheon Oct. 18th, 2014, 8 am- 2 pm 2736 Bowling St. SW, Cedar Rapids 18 Quality Vendors for your shopping enjoyment Our Famous Bake Sale starts at 8 am Delicious Luncheon at 11 am Friends of Cedar Rock An Afternoon with Frank Lloyd Wright October 18th, 1 pm-4 pm Quasqueton American Legion Hall 102, Quasqueton There will be two presentations, “FLW affect in the 21st Century” by Sanjay Jani, Architect, AIA. Principal of AKAR ARchiTecture, and “Frank Lloyd Wright: His Influences and His Legacy” by Roy Behrens, Professor of Art, University of Northern Iowa, The suggested donation is $10. Reservations made through Cedar Rock State Park email cedar_rock@ dnr.iowa.gov or call (319) 934-3572.

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• Today’s light bulbs use a filament of tungsten because it’s a strong metal that can withstand high temperatures without melting. It is heated to around 4,500 degrees F. This high temperature makes the wire glow with heat. Tungsten comes from the Swedish language, with “tung” meaning heavy and “sten” meaning stone.

• Three-way light bulbs have two different filaments: one 50-watt filament and one 100-watt filament. They can be turned on individually or together to produce 150 watts.

• If there were any air inside the bulb, the filament would burn up. Most bulbs contain nitrogen and argon, which lengthen the life of the filament and prevent electricity from jumping around inside the bulb.

• Different kinds of modern day bulbs such as black light and ozone lamps are used for such things as detecting ringworm, revealing art forgeries, finding minerals and water underground, killing odors, and inducing chickens to lay more eggs.

STREETLIGHT FACTS

• Vapor lamps use a gas rather than a wire to produce light. Instead of heating up a wire, the gas is energized, giving off light.

Mercury vapor gives off a blue light, and sodium vapor gives off a yellow light.

Vapor lamps produce more light than incandescent bulbs and last up to 100 times longer.

• Fluorescent lights are a type of vapor lamp that use a combination of mercury and argon vapor. When electrical current passes through the vapor, it gives off ultraviolet light. The inside of the bulb is coated with phosphor, which lights up when struck by the ultraviolet light.

Fluorescent lights are popular because they use 20% of the energy of incandescent bulbs, and produce 20% of the heat.

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Today we finish putting on the “Armor of God” in our battle against the principalities of this dark world. As we have discussed, it is vitally important to have our head, heart, and hands all on the same page, especially in the face of battle. The helmet of salvation protects our head in the battle of our thoughts. It gives us our identity on God’s team and insulates us from internal conflict. Our heart and vital organs are protected from the breastplate of righteousness (doing the right thing) and our legs and feet are protected as we stand firm against the attacks of evil with the Gospel of peace. Our hands are used to hold the shield of faith and the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God. In one hand the shield gives us protection from the fiery arrows of evil while holding onto something that is greater than what we see, our faith. The other hand is holding the Sword (the Word of God) that is used defensively to have divine power over evil and offensively to carve the path God has prepared for us. So our head is protected in the battle in our mind, our heart is protected from the deceit of evil, and our hands are used purposefully for the fulfillment of God’s plan for our lives. Gear up for the battle of life.

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STREETLIGHTS (cont’d)

• Vapor lamps have some disadvantages.

Sodium vapor lamps when used indoors can cause a variety of ills ranging from eye strain to nausea due to the absence of blue light. And fluorescent light has been implicated in some studies in which mice developed cancer more frequently when living under fluorescent light than those living under incandescent light.

• In a compact fluorescent bulb, electricity passes through a gas-filled tube and produces ultraviolet light which is absorbed by a phosphor coating on the inside of the tube which produces the visible light. Phosphor emits light in a narrow Ifthe a wattage, CFL used 1. True or wavelength. false: The higher the only brighter the bulb. one type of phosphor, it would give off 2. If all the power lines in the U.S. were laid endato-end, single The would solution to use howcolor. many times they is stretch to thea moon and back? variety of slightly different phosphors to 3. How did General Electric thwart light bulb theft produce a wide spectrum of light. This in subways?

4.

What country uses the power per capita of can be customized formost different purposes, any country on Earth? giving us the choice of “daylight”, “soft 5. How long will a typical incandescent bulb last white”, “warm white” and other colors. before burning out?

• A 100-watt incandescent light bulb converts only 2.6% of its energy into visible light. The rest is converted to heat, which is why you’ll burn yourself if you touch a light bulb that is turned on. Compact fluorescent bulbs are more efficient: they “Anything won’t sell, I don’t want convert 7.7% ofthat their energy into light, to into invent.”

-Thomas Edison and the rest heat.

That may not seem like a lot, but it’s almost three times as energy efficient as the incandescent.

• The most efficient commercial light bulbs are low pressure sodium lamps which convert 27% of their energy to light, but because they produce a harsh yellow Sylvia Browne 10/19/1936 color, they are not commonly used inside Viggo Mortensen 10/20/1958 the home.

Kim Kardashian 10/21/1980 Johnnyless Carsonenergy 10/22/1925 • LEDs use 80% than Nancy Grace 10/23/1959 incandescents and last far longer because Bill Wyman 10/24/1936 they have no filaments.

An LED bulb in Pablo Picasso 10/25/1881 a newborn’s room would probably not have to be replaced until that child goes off to college. They generate no heat and contain no hazardous materials.

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2. The 2 million miles of power lines in the U.S. would stretch to the moon and back 4 times.

3. General Electric makes specialty bulbs that screw in counterclockwise instead of clockwise for use in subways. Subway light bulbs can only be used in subway sockets.

4. Saudi Arabia currently (pun) uses more power per capita than any other nation, followed by Canada in second place, and the U.S. in third.

5. The average incandescent bulb will burn for 750 to 1000 hours. A compact fluorescent will last about ten times that long.

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•If you don’t want bugs buzzing around your porch lights, use yellow light bulbs. Yellow is invisible to many insects so they won’t be attracted to the light.

• In 1911 the first neon sign was patented.

Neon is a colorless, odorless gas found in our atmosphere at a ratio of 1 part neon to 55,000 parts air. When concentrated in a glass tube, it conducts electricity and produces a red glow. The color can be changed by altering pressure or adding other gasses.

• If you would like to make your own neon tubes, here’s the recipe: Simply liquefy a large quantity of air, and allow it to boil.

Collect the first gasses that escape when it reaches boiling point. That will be a mixture of helium, neon, and nitrogen.

Remove the nitrogen through chemical absorption, then chill the remaining mixture to -310 f. and pass it over charcoal, which will absorb the helium. Now heat the charcoal to recover the neon.

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WOODWARD & EVANS

• Thomas Edison is credited with inventing the light bulb. However, two Canadians successfully produced and patented an electric filament lamp five years before Edison turned his mind to electric lighting.

• Medical student Henry Woodward lived next to Matthew Evans, who was a doorman at a hotel near where they lived in Toronto. They spent their spare time together and enjoyed performing amateur science experiments.

• One evening in 1873, they hooked up an induction coil to a primitive battery. There was a spark at the contact post which intrigued them. It was bright enough to illuminate their entire work bench. They couldn’t help but think that if they could confine that spark in a glass globe, they’d have a marvelous invention on their hands.

• Woodward and Evans reasoned that passing current through a high resistance filament would increase the temperature of the filament material and cause it to glow. They experimented with various types of filaments and discovered that a carbon rod worked best.

They enclosed the carbon rod filament inside a glass tube which had originally been a boiler level indicator, then connected electrodes to both ends. Before testing their primitive light tube, Woodward and Evans replaced the air inside the tube with nitrogen to prevent the carbon rod from catching fire.

• Woodward and Evans took their contraption to Morrison’s Brass Foundry in Toronto for testing. Evans recalled, “There were four or five of us sitting around a large table. Woodward closed the switch and gradually we saw the carbon become first red and gradually lighter and lighter in color until it beamed forth in beautiful light.”

• Encouraged by the results, they invested in a dynamo to power the lights. Woodward and Evans were subsequently granted patents in Canada and the U.S. for their incandescent light tube. Next, they went out to find investors so they could set up a company to supply electric lights to the public. And that’s when they ran into trouble.

• They found some initial backers, but didn’t bring in enough money to get the company off the ground. When they asked for additional funding from their investors, most of the original stockholders declined. When Evans and Woodward were publicly criticized for creating a “useless invention,” funding evaporated and frustration set in.

• By 1879, Thomas Edison was experimenting with light bulbs and he discovered the patents that already existed. He contacted Woodward and Evans and asked them if they would sell the American patent to him. They sold out for the sum of $5,000, which would be worth about $125,000 today. Six years later, Edison bought the Canadian patent as well.

• Edison was far better situated to commercialize and distribute the new invention. Demand for electric lighting grew rapidly.

• Edison was also forced into business with chemist Joseph Swan, who had patented the same idea in Britain. Swan would not sell his patent, so Edison and Swan went into business together.

• Great inventions are often built on innovations by many people, inventors improving and expanding on advancements of others until a workable article is achieved. Edison’s incandescent light bulb is an example of that process, and it all began with a couple of Canadians.

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December 22– January 19

June 22– July 22

You’ve got a lot on your plate these days, Capricorn. You are not the only one. Take comfort in that fact. A financial review goes better than expected.

Get a move on, Cancer.

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July 23– August 22

You can be quite the perfectionist, Aquarius.

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February 19– March 20

Baloney, Pisces. Take what you hear this week with a grain of salt. A change in guard at work is no reason for panic. A date is set. Start the planning.

March 21– April 19

Arrogant Aries. Nah, not you. However, if you want to get your due, you are going to have to toot your own horn. An acquaintance makes a proposal.

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Concerns grow with an increase in the work-load.

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Avoid Drug Copay Coupons If clipping coupons keeps some money in our pockets, we’re all for it. But there’s one type of coupon you don’t want to use: drug manufacturers’ coupons to save you money on your drug-plan copays.

You see, it’s illegal. It’s part of the anti-kickback laws. And while the drug companies are the ones at fault, there’s recent news that you, the coupon user, could be implicated if you use those coupons in conjunction with your Medicare Part D. Here’s how this works: Drug companies give copay coupons to entice you to buy their brand-name drugs instead of the generic that your drug plan offers. This is illegal, because it encourages people to purchase drugs that are paid for by a government health-care program, such as Medicare Part D. And why should you care (besides the fact that it’s illegal)? Because in the end it will cost you money. Here’s how: If you buy a drug that costs $100 with a $20 copay and use a coupon for $10, you pay only $10 out of pocket. The Plan D program then pays the balance.

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Read the tiny print on the coupon itself.

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