Reply #15: William Jefferson Clinton - Thomas Jefferson [View All]

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There is a Jefferson there anyway.

Also, it is well known that they took the dome off after 9-11 to make it a smaller target. I am surprised you hadn't heard that. I thought everybody knew.

It looks like Heinrich Goebel invented the electric lamp in 1854. In 1893 he won a court case against Thomas Edison, although the record goes back to 1820 when "Warren De la Rue enclosed a platinum coil in an evacuated glass tube and passed electricity through it in the first recorded attempt to produce an incandescent lamp". Sounds like an early light-bulb to me, and a Frenchman too. This is from "The Timetables of Technology" page 216. The same page says Eli Whitney also was the first American to utilize standardized parts, an idea probably originally owed to Leblanc, a French arms manufacturer.