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Superfest glass (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The lightbulbs thing was (possibly) different. There's some physical limits on the performance of lightbulbs so the time to failure test was more of a proxy to make sure bulbs of a certain wattage were outputting similar strength and color light.

https://youtu.be/zb7Bs98KmnY?si=UQzU-Vn2E01Bs4sm

I don't know if there were other reasons this glass tech didn't catch on besides the obvious capitalism issues, but the lightbulb thing is definitely a misunderstood piece of trivia.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Ha I knew someone would bring up Tech Connections. Both vids feature fascinating science history!