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[quote user="jeffrey-wimberly"][quote user="cacole"] We've been using candles and kerosene lanterns for years and years, and don't need no 'lectric light!"[/quote]We've come a long way since the nay-sayers of 1879 trying to write off the improved incandescent light bulb. That's right, the incandescent light bulb was already out there. Edison took what was already there and improved it. It was through direct marketing that Edison made his bulb popular.DC for layout power has been king for many, many years. But, DCC isn't the first control system to have come out for model railroads. Anybody remember 'Astrac'? The Astrac system sent radio signals through the rails to special recievers in the locomotives which could each be controlled independantly of each other, even in the same block. Sound familiar? The problem was that each reciever had to be specially tuned (which was a PITA!). The new system (DCC) took what was already there and improved it and made it much simpler to use.[/quote]They are working on light emitting chemicals that you paint onto a wall and retire the old light bulb as we knew em at some point in the future.At first I did not want to participate in this thread because it seemed to be such a silly declaration to make and nothing but trouble.
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