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Let there be light! Hit
the switch and hay
presto we have daylight
in our homes at night.
Less than 200 years ago
this was not the case
and as my late Granddad
used to tell the family
about his ‘basic
childhood’. He would sit
quite still with a
candle so his farther
could read his news
paper, ‘you wouldn’t
dare move or you would
get a clip around the
ear’ he would tell us.
A bit
different today, kids
disappear into their
rooms with portable
games consoles. The
whole light bulb thing
started with a real
clever guy called ‘Davy’
who was successful at
passing electric through
strips of charcoal but
these burned too rapidly
and couldn’t sustain a
glow long enough.
American Thomas Edison
continued the long hard
slog and eventually came
up with what we know
today as the light bulb.
He was a truly great
inventor and had over
1000 patents to his name
which gave him a world
record, he died in 1931.
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