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me: people with ADHD aren’t *literally* distracted by random squirrels, that’s just a simplistic stereotype. A caricature, really- also me: https://t.co/RqgMQDZA6j
this guy Oleg Vladimirovich Losev invented LEDs decades before everybody else (in the 1920s) but nobody cared. he was a lonely nerd with no co-authors. wrote to einstein but didn't get a reply https://t.co/pFwIDn5Xeg https://t.co/YWQF4HC0WB
LED is a $54B/yr industry, forecasted to reach $90B+ in the next few years https://t.co/ybPPMCKdUg
ha this is interesting – the article/pdf was published in April 2007, and at the time they wrote "predicted to exceed $15B per year" – they were right! in fact it was an underestimation! https://t.co/V3a8CGtcJI
oh man, Losev died of hunger – starved to death during the blocade of Leningrad, aged 39 F what could he have done with a little support and a little more time "unknown and uncelebrated, this should've been the beginning of the photonic telecommunications revolution" https://t.co/7SDE43C1Hm
@visakanv He was awarded a PhD without a formal thesis or finishing school! Dayum! See THIS is what I’m talking about. No co-authors. Workin alone can be a detriment. Like, it’s impressive, but great ideas need two parents to have a higher survival rate
this familiar fren is called a Seven Segment Display 3rd pic from a patent in 1908 (Frank Wood) https://t.co/RwWa9VouZr https://t.co/qNHZxxVpxH
7-segment lets you do all the numbers, but you can't do all the letters then there's 14-segment displays, and there are also less common(?) ones like 9-segments https://t.co/OBF4kIOws6
got me curious now about all the things I may have owned with LED displays, like whatever digital watch I used as a teenager https://t.co/lhk5JVnmjQ
thinking also more broadly about the ways in which the constraints of new mediums influenced typography and fonts. brian eno guitar quote etc https://t.co/UPv7zyzvdw
let’s solve the Losev problem https://t.co/Qi5X1KBBix
@franki3stone buncha threads here you might like https://t.co/imyk30PvuT