Talk:Timeline of transportation technology
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[edit] Some Suggestions and Comment
I greatly appreciate your work on this. I think too many people take electric light for granted, and some even look at it as their mortal enemy - the International Dark Skies Association for instance.
I suggest the removal of the term "light bulb" from any article on lighting. It is fine to equate "light bulb" to "lamp", but the lighting industry exclusively uses the word lamp for the "light bulb". "Light bulb" to any lighting person means the glass enclosure of the lamp.
Secondly, I would suggest change to the 1991 Philips entry to simply call it an "induction lamp" like the entire industry does. I would suggest "1991 Philips introduces the magnetic induction lamp; a variety of fluorescent lamp that lasts 60,000 hours." How this lamp works is worth an article unto itself since it is very interesting. I however will leave that to someone that works for a lamp (not a light bulb) company.
Finally, you can find an elaborate treatise on this subject in David DiLaura's "A History of Light and Lighting" available through the Illuminating Engineering Soci3ety of North America (www.iesna.org). I would suggest the addition of this to a list of further reading. All proceeds from the book go to support the non-profit society. Ericbikeco (talk) 17:43, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Deleted these portions
"*770 - Iron horseshoes come into common use
- 1492 - Leonardo da Vinci describes a flying machine"
Iron horseshoes should not belong in this list...you might as well add the wheel/stirrup/etc if you want to add the horseshoe. Furthermore, someone "imagining" a method of transportation doesn't warrant being on this list either. This list is purely for actual pieces of transportations used/invented. Intranetusa 19:07, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Permission from Niel Brandt
adapted from list originally compiled by Niel Brandt RE: Copyright Permissions on this and other timelines developed by Niel Brandt, the following email exchange took place:
"Niel,
I saw your timeline pages, and thought they would be really valuable for the wikipedia project (http://www.wikipedia.com). Do you have any problem with someone posting them there (and setting up links)? Wikipedia uses GNU Free Document License, so your work may be redistributed by anyone in any format.
Thanks,
David Levinson"
To which was responded
"hi,
this is fine with me. good luck!
cheers, niel"
Source of timelines is various (they have been reproduced across the web). One is http://www.gsu.edu/other/timeline.html
[edit] Cugnot tractor
Somebody needs to check the Cugnot tractor. There's serious doubt it ever actually ran, from what I've read. Trekphiler 21:05, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
