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LED Forty Years Older Than Thought
LED lover writes "The discovery of the LED is usually credited to four US groups in 1962, but an unrecognized Russian genius got there forty years before. Oleg Losev even filed a patent on using his device for long range communications, and wrote to Einstein to ask for help with the theory — but got no reply."
In soviet Russia, LED invents YOU!
Let me guess,
the first man in space was Russian as well...
It doesn't matter how old the LED gets, if you ask it it will always tell you its 40.
There is no mod option "-1: Disagree" for a reason. "Overrated" is not an acceptable substitute. Post something instead.
OL-LEDs, in his honour.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
something like: I discovered that semiconductors can produce light, I have discovered a truly marvellous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain?
So LEDs precede thought? No wonder people always draw light bulbs over people's heads when they get an idea.
... The LED lights you up.
Use your head, can't you, use your head,
You're on earth, there's no cure for that - S. Beckett
Those of you who remember the good old cold war days will recall that the Soviets can be credited with inventing the LED, television, ramen noodles, california rolls, snow tires, the hanging curveball, and pants.
Life needs more saving throws.
While using a glass diode in my 150-in-1 kit, I independently discovered bright white LEDs about 30 years ago. The only problem is that the light only lasted about 1/2 second, and then it was followed by a little puff of smoke.
Looks like you invented the SED. Did you patent it?
Only three things are certain; death, taxes, and apocryphal quotations - Ben Franklin.
So, we were misLED...
So those LEDs that were supposed to have 11 year life spans are now going to wink out any minu
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
a free market with a single Venture Capitalist (the state party chairman) through whom ALL requests for money to develop an invention must go through
You have a... "unique" definition of the word "free".
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C'mon. Not even Reagan thought Russians were that evil.
Chekov: Everybody knows the LED was invented by a little old lady in Leningrad.
No, in fact they're doing a better-than-decent job of separating me from my money (not that I'm all that brainy, but still...)
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Somebody in one of my college labs plugged an erasable programmable ROM (the kind with the clear window over the die for the UV erasure; who remembers those?) into its socket backwards, reversing power and ground, thereby inventing the light-emitting EPROM. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a one-time use device.
But, I wanted socialized health insurance!
Working on the energy problem I have become aware every day how things can be known and yet nothing done about them. I know of 11 technologies that all work quite well and all of them produce energy without fuel. It is like pulling teeth and as popular as do it yourself root canal work to get investors to pony up to get any work done. Then come the "Physics Police." These are people like the loons who moderate down any comment that points out any theoretical flaws in their belief system. Don't believe me? Every time I disclose that something is wrong with the Einstein SR theory I get the "Troll" whacked on me. I am only trying to help people learn what is really going on. That is neither troll nor unfriendly.
Just to be fair for the guys who keep saying that such is not possible. I know of 3 devices that generate electricity from solid state devices and use no fuel. I know of 2 fully built and working electric motor designs. One is 7:1 over unity and the other is 3.5 over unity. All in all I would say that there is substantial evidence that the Physics Police don't know what they are talking about.Spare the heckling about if you can do this.... Like any other technology this stuff takes time and money. It also is quite tedious. No! I didn't invent these technologies though I know how to use them. The players in this are not minor players either. There are some really big players in the field already. This is all coming in good time. Well sometime anyway. I suspect later than sooner.
Never Politically Correct ~ I prefer the facts If you don't like what I say, get a life, or comment yourself.
But, one of the main reasons ideas like this get buried is because the person explaining the idea is incapable of explaining it to those who would back him/her. Call it PHB syndrome.
You're calling Einstein a PHB?
I killed the electric car, but I did not discharge the battery
What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.
.... patents file you!
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.