Did the Egyptians have electric lighting?, page 2

Deviating even more from the topic of my own post, you are quite right. He is not nearly so obscure than his obsessive fans (myself VERY much included) make out, so much as he was underappreciated. You say the words 'great inventor' and most people'll think 'Edison'. The two spent years in an epic battle; Tesla ultimately won, but preceeded to die poor, alone, and without even a tv episode of Arthur being made about him. This blows majorly because created so much more than Edison ever did. Whodathunk that remote controlled toys were invented in the 1880's?

Um, so yes, I concur.

p.s., I just searched extensively on this site for anything else related to this topic, and found absolutely nothing.

reply posted on 23-11-2007 @ 01:46 AM by Hanslune

Then Tony

It's up to you to correct this, pedition the ATS guys to start a site for the great man - or just start threads in what ever the appropriate area might be.

The flag has been past

reply posted on 5-1-2009 @ 07:51 PM by Mandible

Originally posted by I-on-beam
Here is a pictorial of two men together each holding one, plus the ole bonus glif of saucers, planes and helicopters.

Other Views

2 years ago it crossed my mind, while visiting an underwater world, when I saw the moray and it high voltage producing, how could they have used this kind of energy?
when you look at the first pic, you can see moray/snake/eel in an amphora,
and this "rope" connected beneath

so the funny thing is that a Henry Moray was onto this radiant energy
www.free-energy.ws...

but of course it just only a thought ...

reply posted on 6-1-2009 @ 08:24 AM by Harte

Originally posted by Mandible

Originally posted by I-on-beam
Here is a pictorial of two men together each holding one, plus the ole bonus glif of saucers, planes and helicopters.

Other Views

2 years ago it crossed my mind, while visiting an underwater world, when I saw the moray and it high voltage producing, how could they have used this kind of energy?
when you look at the first pic, you can see moray/snake/eel in an amphora,
and this "rope" connected beneath

so the funny thing is that a Henry Moray was onto this radiant energy
www.free-energy.ws...

but of course it just only a thought ...

Moray eels possess no electrical abilities.

Could you please produce evidence of electric eels in Egypt?

Harte

reply posted on 6-1-2009 @ 11:12 AM by FatherLukeDuke

Some of these threads should only be allowed one reply then closed.

OP: Did the Egyptians have electric lighting?

1st Post: NO

CLOSED

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reply posted on 6-1-2009 @ 12:12 PM by Hanslune

reply to post by FatherLukeDuke

Hey Father (I always think of Father Ted when viewing your name)

Close the thread? Oh no, keep valuable examples of fringe thought from prying eyes? No let them run or the fringe will be up in arms about censorsip and suppressing the truth......of course it would be good to keep the same types of threads from running over and over again. But the monitoring of that is a nightmare.

Electricity in Egypt. The Egyptians were probably aware of static electricity and probably atributed it to magic.----the gods could be blamed for the violent thunderstorms that rarely charge across the delta region too.

Making electricity and using it? No evidence whatsoever....

reply posted on 6-1-2009 @ 02:46 PM by Harte

Originally posted by FatherLukeDuke
Some of these threads should only be allowed one reply then closed.

OP: Did the Egyptians have electric lighting?

1st Post: NO

CLOSED

Padre,

Don't be such a stranger.

You're needed here.

Harte

reply posted on 6-1-2009 @ 03:31 PM by Hanslune

reply to post by Harte

Yeah Harte and I are geting rather senior in the NWO (knowledge suppression unit) I think the NWO will soon make Harte the Education Minister or Waziristan and I'll get a new posting as a Prison of War Commandant in Tahiti.

More the merrier, a small packet with all the benefits and salary information will be left under your drivers seat along with your secret decoder ring and handbook, "World knowledge suppression for dummies".

reply posted on 6-1-2009 @ 04:13 PM by Mandible

reply to post by Harte

here ur electric fish
en.wikipedia.org...
I am sorry I live "too far" now from ancient time, so how should i know about the fish they had or imported ?

but i found some egypt myth and saw that science like to use old names
asteroid apophis
www.guardian.co.uk...

but may be :

At night, she lures men down to the the water in pairs, by appearing as a beautiful young woman. One man is hypnotized by her, while the other tries to bring the other man back from his trance. Usually, the man succeeds in breaking her spell, and the two run away. She’s believed to be a kind of genie, and despite the dual belief that she devours and drowns men, no instance of a a man dying by her hand has yet been recorded.

www.apophis.net...

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reply posted on 6-1-2009 @ 05:07 PM by cynical572

@ Hanslune, thanks for replying to my previous post, you make a good point about the the time frame of the battery not matching up with the timeframe of the "light bulb" glyphs. That show I seen on Discovery recreated these large "Egyptian Light Bulbs" and powered them off of "Baghdad Batteries", which implys that electricty was possible, but they were "cherry picking" technologies to force a result. Most of my searches for ancient electricty turn up the same results with the same few pics. However I tried a different approach and search "ever-burning-lamps" and I found some intersting stuff. I'm not convinced the ancients had light bulbs but I also dislike whenever people say "they surely experienced static electricity and must have thought it was the work of gods", as if there were no atheists back then. What did the atheists think it was? (just kidding) but this is definetly not "Debunked 100 %" the search continues...peace yall

reply posted on 6-1-2009 @ 05:24 PM by Hanslune

reply to post by Mandible

Well dang I was wrong again. No eels in egypt but further upstream...we have electric catfish.

The electric catfish of the Congo and Nile basins emits weaker discharges than does the eel and has a discharging mechanism slightly different from that of the eel. Its electric shock organ consists of a membrane of nerve endings that extends over the entire back.

These little buggers live in the upper Nile, not sure if they enter the main channel. As far as I can determine they are not large enough to shock a man.

reply posted on 7-1-2009 @ 11:58 AM by Harte

Originally posted by Mandible
reply to post by Harte

here ur electric fish
en.wikipedia.org...

Thanks, Mandible.

Your link lists all species of freshwater electric fish. Of course, eels are fish, and the article mentions two families of electric fish that are ocean-going (Morays live in salt water, I believe - most do, I'm sure.)

This is a table of all known electric fish species within fresh water. There are two groups of marine fishes, the electric rays (Torpediniformes: Narcinidae and Torpedinidae) and the stargazers (Perciformes: Uranoscopidae) capable of generating strong electric pulses.

Neither of these families contain the Moray Eel..

However, don't think that I don't appreciate the fact that you actually researched the situation. We need more of that around here!

Originally posted by Mandible
I am sorry I live "too far" now from ancient time, so how should i know about the fish they had or imported ?

Me too.

But I didn't make the claim that Morays were electric.

Also, since you speculated that the Egyptians might have used electric eels as an energy source, I was wondering if you knew of any in the Nile.

AFAIK, all electric eels are freshwater.

And, it would be very difficult to use the electricity from eels to power anything. Eels emit the electricity when they feel like it, and they cannot emit it at a constant rate for extended periods.

However, again, thanks for at least trying to look it up!

Harte

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