I wish you good luck on your endevors. Its great you are honoring your father

That is a really neat collection of light bulbs. thank you for sharing with us.

Who knew that the standard lightbulb base was determined by the early offerings of Edison and Westinghouse! Great and interesting video.

nice

As a kid in the early 70's we had a large wooded area near our neighborhood. In that woods were the remains of the old farm buildings from the farm that used to be where that neighborhood was built. The one building, a 500+ft long chicken house had a single run of knob and tube lighting end to end. We would regularly go thought those buildings as kids, we even rode our bicycles through some parts of them. I remember early on that the power was still on and the wires were live, but someone came along and cut the lines after some kid got zapped. I remember seeing those sockets with no threads but never knew much about them till now. I also remember a few of them having wire baskets or crude wire 'nets' that were stretched over the bulbs to hold them in, many of those, of which a lot were broken, had threaded bases but were in threadless sockets. As a kid, I didn't give it much thought but I do think I may have taken a few of those bulbs home but they were too big to fit modern sockets. There were also a few stacks of those wavy glass or porcelain reflectors laying in there, sort of stacked up in the corner, they were sort of a greenish white color. Those buildings eventually fell down, and somewhere along the line the woods got bulldozed and more houses built but that was after I left there in or around 1984 or so. The buildings fell down around 1976-77 when the remnants of a hurricane blew through, anything int here after that was destroyed. Thinking back, there likely wasn't much holding the old place up even before the storm. In those days the land was part of the outer edges of a city park that had been built in the late 40's and abandoned by the early 60's and allowed to just get overgrown until it was sold off and turned into a parking lot. There's probably more of those old bulbs lying around in peoples attics and basements, a few of the older homes in that area still had knob and tube wiring that was at least partly still in use as late as the 1990's. Many of which were built in the 1870's and 1880's.

And yet we had the Tesla and Edison DC and AC competetion which he never really discussed...