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} G0TEZ/TPK 1.83c Num 136 17-07-02T17:14:28 GMT: COLNE,Lancs:
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} A retired electrician I know, who is on packet BTW, once took me to task
} for talking about 'bulbs'. It appears that professional electricians say
} 'lamps'.
}
} This makes some sense. Lamps were originally oil or gas and so
} became electric lamps when they took over so, in that sense,
} 'lamp' is more correct.
}
} As for bulbs. When Joseph Swann invented electric light he used a
} glass bulb with either a vacuum or a vacuum + an inert gas to avoid
} destroying the filament. He did also get the idea for fluorescent bulbs
} from this.
}
} Electric light bulbs became merely bulbs, the word I use and most other
} people use.
}
} The one electrical misnomer which really does annoy me, and I've seen it
} in this discussion, is the use of the terms 'plug' and 'plug tops'.
} I first heard this in the early 1970s.
}
} For many years, the bit with the pins was called a plug and the bit
} with the holes was called the socket.
} I would like to meet the ignoramus who spred the words 'plug tops'
} around!
} Thankfully, most people have reverted to the correct usage i.e., plug
} & socket.
}
} In a way it's a bit like the parts of cars. The American 'hood' v
} British 'bonnet', 'boot' v 'trunk'. If you go back far enough you find
} that
} horseless carriages had sometimes a trunk on the back, sometimes a
} lockable boot just inside. Bonnets and hoods both kept the rain and mud
} off the carriage; eventually just the engine, so both are right.
}
} For some reason the words 'tomayto' and 'tomahto' keep running through my
} head so I think I'll go perk a cup of coffee and sit watching the TV in
} my apartment while the song goes away.
}
} All the best. Ian.
}
}
In this neck of the woods we call 'em globes. In the american woods they
call sockets, jacks.
Bye,
Bob
What follows is just a Tagline....
...So what's the speed of dark?
73 Bob vk5krj. (Bulletin)
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