Daniel McFarlan Moore was an engineer ahead of his time who envisioned a world illuminated by his brilliant light tubes. The world was not ready.
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12 thoughts on “A desperate light: moore’s tubes”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dan Oberste says:

    220 feet?!? How did they transport light tubes that long? Were they manufactured on site somehow?
    Great video Fran.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dustin Smous says:

    Hey Fran, i have a few 16mm television commercials from the 60's that are tours if you want them! I think they are commercials for Archway cookies. I'm downsizing my collection of stuff, and you were rhe first person i thought of for these items!

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  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Juan says:

    It's curious that more advanced fluorescent light was invented before the simple incenscent light bulb. Thanks for the video.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Furball2k says:

    Wow, mind blown… I never of this man. Awesome job Fran!

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Paulo Cavutto says:

    Forty years working with electronics and still learning from Fran.Thank you.

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Stephen Grall says:

    This was great, Fran!

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ramingo says:

    Incredible story! Thanks

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Daniel Martin says:

    More like this. This is awesome!

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Rocket Farm says:

    This how we could reduce CO2 reverting back to carbon

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Absurd Engineering says:

    Now that we know a wee bit more about physics and chemistry, it shouldn’t be hard maybe to recombine the carbon and oxygen, perhaps over a catalyst bed.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dan Coulson says:

    Imagine how mesmerizing it would have been 150 years ago.
    You've only ever seen dim flickering amber light from candles, oil lamps, acetylene miners lamps, and gas gause lamps, and early incandescent lamps.
    All of a sudden you see a futuristic, hollow glass tube, emitting a bluish, cold white.
    It must have seemed like futuristic alien technology.

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