Good morning.
It’s a partly cloudy Friday ahead, with a high temperature in the mid-fifties. Indian summer now having passed, fall seems like fall.
In the city today, there will be a public meeting of the ‘CDA Special Director Review Committee’ at 4 PM. The agenda for the meeting is available online.
It’s all part of a CDA director search process. Our community should have had an independent CDA director all of these recent years. Our chosen alternative, to use the city manager in a de facto role, along with a CDA coordinator, has been the wrong approach. We have only too much press, too little true development, and a failed tax incremental district to show for our efforts and spending.
On this day in 1879, Edison invented a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J. Here’s part of the description from the New York Times story on his accomplishment:
There was no lack of enthusiasm or of confidence about Mr. Edison as he greeted the Times reporter who entered his laboratory at Menlo Park, N. J., yesterday. The inventor, a short, thick-set man, with grimy hands, led the way through his workshop, and willingly explained the distinctive features of what he and many others look upon as an apparatus which will soon cause gas-light to be a thing of the past. The lamp which Mr. Edison regards as a crowning triumph is a model of simplicity and economy. In the lamp the light is emitted by a horseshoe of carbonized paper about two and a half inches long and the width of a thread. This horseshoe is in a glass globe, from which the air has been as thoroughly exhausted as science is able to do.
Example of Edison’s Original Bulb
Rejuvenation is one of a few companies that sell replicas of Edison’s original bulb, and a listing of their bulbs is available online.