Granite Geek - Latest Comments in Sometimes old technology is still good technologyhttp://granitegeek.disqus.com/enTue, 08 Jan 2008 02:15:00 -0000Re: Sometimes old technology is still good technologyhttp://granitegeek.org/2008/01/07/sometimes-old-technology-is-still-good-technology/#comment-2110271Moses Farmer who was the co-inventor of the fire alarm system, was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire.<br><br>What I consider his greater feat was that in 1868, eleven years before Edison patented his version of the light bulb, Moses Farmer, with a dynamo of his own invention, illuminated a room of his house (in Salem Massachusetts) for several months--this was the first known case of domestic incandescent lighting.<br><br><a href="http://cowhampshire.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2006/5/24/1980503.html" rel="nofollow">http://cowhampshire.blogharbor.com/blog/_archiv...</a>JaniceTue, 08 Jan 2008 02:15:00 -0000