The Edison light bulb, brilliant as it is, is a health and safety hazard, and you know it. All over the world young and old get burned to varying degrees by Edison bulbs. No one ever got burned by a Tesla bulb, but ConEd made sure every American was deadly afraid of being hit with some loose bolts of electricity.
Edison crushed Tesla with his winsome, all-American charm and a full-out campaign -- marketing, public relations, negative advertising, and innuendo (Who knew what that weird foreigner was up to in Colorado Springs?) If it hadn't been for that, we would have been using Tesla bulbs all along.
Today, modern Americans used the new-fangled phosphorescent low-energy bulbs, and gee whiz ain't modern technology something...except Nicholai Tesla came up with it for the 1896 Chicago Worlds Fair. And since they use 40 percent less energy and last longer that means the savings in electricity costs for everyone who doesn't own an energy plant for about 100 years adds up to....
Get yer chemistry straight: the bulbs are fluorescent, not phosphorescent.
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