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[Fred Cisin]

> >>>How many people saw that Nova?
No, not Nova.  "Minds Of Our Own"
> >>> PBS session where they handed ENGINEERING
> >>>undergrads a battery a bulb and a handful of wires?  Many of the students
> >>>were adament that it was impossible to light the bulb without a socket.
>
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
> Was the Nova staged or something?  Surely engineering undergrads would know
> how to make a light bulb light up.  I call bullshit.

It does seem hard to believe.  But it wasn't staged.
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ep/almanac/797.htm

Some thought that it "could not be done" without a socket.
Very few realized, even with a broken bulb at hand, that a bulb has two
contacts.


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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com