Comments on: Illuminating! A Brief History of the Headlight http://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/illuminating-a-brief-history-of-the-headlight/ The Neat Side of the Web Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:00:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Flu-Bird http://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/illuminating-a-brief-history-of-the-headlight/comment-page-1/#comment-1816826 Flu-Bird Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:12:01 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/illuminating-a-brief-history-of-the-headlight/#comment-1816826 i HEARD THAT PEOPLE DIDNT DRIVE MUCH AT NIGHT UNTIL THE ELECTRIC SEALED BEAM HEADLIGHT came out during the 1920s and then came HALOGEN HEADLIGHTS and can anyone remember the duel headlights i HEARD THAT PEOPLE DIDNT DRIVE MUCH AT NIGHT UNTIL THE ELECTRIC SEALED BEAM HEADLIGHT came out during the 1920s and then came HALOGEN HEADLIGHTS and can anyone remember the duel headlights

]]> By: Carl http://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/illuminating-a-brief-history-of-the-headlight/comment-page-1/#comment-1815967 Carl Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:20:17 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/14/illuminating-a-brief-history-of-the-headlight/#comment-1815967 This is only mildly related but my folks have an ancient flashlight that belonged at *least* to my grandfather though more likely even older than that. It's an old "signal flashlight" that has a standard small flashlight bulb but also a slider switch that, when pushed, advanced a transparent tube up around the lightbulb to achieve either white (no tube), green, or red lighting to signal trains. Thought that was pretty ingenious. This is only mildly related but my folks have an ancient flashlight that belonged at *least* to my grandfather though more likely even older than that. It’s an old “signal flashlight” that has a standard small flashlight bulb but also a slider switch that, when pushed, advanced a transparent tube up around the lightbulb to achieve either white (no tube), green, or red lighting to signal trains.

Thought that was pretty ingenious.

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