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."

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nobody gives kimchi any credit

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nobody gives kimchi any credit

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[dlhm]

When we look back at history we see whole civilization who where forgotton, only to be recently re-dicsovered by archeologist finding hard tangible evidense (usually encrusted in earth). We remember the Egyptions whose whole language and writings where forgotton to history only to be rediscovered. Claims like the one in this article only lead me to beleive that no matter how well preserved information is, it will be eventually be forgotton until the distant future. I believe this erosion of history is evident in many cultures and civilizations, too many things are called into question, until the line of whats real and whats suggested seem to blur. IMHO The point.. If the evidense cannot be dug out of the dirt in 100 or 1000 years, then only whats suggested will survive. If he didn't build it, it didn't happen.