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Quizzical Pursuit
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Created by Dave Guadagni
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Architecture Puzzler #488
In 1879 Thomas Edison produced a light bulb with a carbon filament that burned for 40 hours. By 1880 he had developed a light bulb using a bamboo-derived filament that would last 1,200 hours. He did not, however, invent the first electric light, or even the first light bulb. The first electric light was invented by Humphry Davy, an English chemist, in which of the following years; 1689, 1749, or 1809?
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Question from Last Week:
Architecture Puzzler #487
What is the fundamental difference between a Cretin column and a Doric column?
Answer to Puzzler #487
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