Fran Blanche – A Desperate Light: Moore’s Tubes
An evening pause: A key moment and a forgotten man in the history of technology.
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That was a very enlightening video, thanks! ;-)
Tom- excellent find!
Use in Martian greenhouses and get oxygen TWO ways.
We actually had a guy hang dozens of florescent tubes around his property and used a Tesla Coil to fire them up at night.
Looked for a download of Scientific American V74 I09 (the issue referenced in the video), but could only find the Index on the SA site (https://www.scientificamerican.com/issue/sa/1896/02-29/). The relevant article would seem to be “Vacuum Tube Illumination by the D. McFarlan Moore System”. If anyone can obtain a download of the issue or article, do tell. Library of Congress yielded no result, although some interesting information unrelated to the search. ‘Old South Leaflets’, for example.
And, referencing Jeff Wright’s comment, the issue has an article “Recent Observations of Mars”, which I would also like to see.