END OF EDISON ERA??? (Not yet!)

John C. Dvorak - PC Mag Sept 20 05:

Someone commented on TV that once the movie projector is gone (converted to DLP and similar chip projectors), and LEDs replace the incandescent light bulb, we'll be at the end of the Thomas Edison era, as we will no longer be using ANY of his many inventions. [!!!!]

The irony, though, is that this won't be true for a very long time. Edison, working with Henry Ford, perfected manufacturing of the modern charcoal briquette, as in those bags sold by Kingston. (The Edison-Ford methodology may have been based on--or perhaps managed to circumvent--a patent briquette process developed in 1897 by inventor Ellsworth B.A. Zwoyer.) Whatever the case, they sell them at Safeway. Edison lives!

What a world we've become, when the only thing left from Thomas Edison's prolific portfolio is--the charcoal briquette!