Saturday, October 26, 2013

New Dracula series on TV NBC

It appears to be a British creation because everyone has a British accent. The first episode I found interesting the way they wove Nicola Tesla's free electricity into it. I would say the time setting would be London around 1890 to 1900 around then. So far, it's interesting. You might try watching it. The period it is set in makes it interesting to me especially because I'm a fan of Nicola Tesla the genius who invented alternating current, fluorescent lighting, long distance transmission of electricity etc. etc. etc.

Where I live it's on Friday night so likely it will be where you are too if you are in the U.S.

I was interested in learning more about when the incandescent bulb was invented by Edison. Here is part of what I found:

THE INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULB

Light BulblightbulbThe first incandescent electric light was made in 1800 by Humphry Davy, an English scientist. He experimented with electricity and invented an electric battery. When he connected wires to his battery and a piece of carbon, the carbon glowed, producing light. This is called an electric arc. Much later, in 1860, the English physicist Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (1828-1914) was determined to devise a practical, long-lasting electric light. He found that a carbon paper filament worked well, but burned up quickly. In 1878, he demonstrated his new electric lamps in Newcastle, England.
The inventor Thomas Alva Edison (in the USA) experimented with thousands of different filaments to find just the right materials to glow well and be long-lasting. In 1879, Edison discovered that a carbon filament in an oxygen-free bulb glowed but did not burn up for 40 hours. Edison eventually produced a bulb that could glow for over 1500 hours.
Lewis Howard Latimer (1848-1928) improved the light bulb by inventing a carbon filament (patented in 1881); Latimer was a member of Edison's research team, which was called "Edison's Pioneers." In 1882, Latimer developed and patented a method of manufacturing his carbon filaments.
In 1903, Willis R. Whitney invented a treatment for the filament so that it wouldn't darken the inside of the bulb as it glowed. In 1910, William David Coolidge (1873-1975) invented a tungsten filament which lasted even longer than the older filaments. The incandescent bulb revolutionized the world.

end quote from:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/page/i/incandescentbulb.shtml

Dracula (TV Series 2013– ) - IMDb

www.imdb.com/title/tt2296682/
Rating: 7.6/10 - ‎1,050 votes
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