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For sure! I just came across the interesting story of Marvin Pipkin, who, upon starting a job at General Electric, was given a "fool's errand" by his new team,
by yesbabyyes 7y ago
For sure! I just came across the interesting story of Marvin Pipkin, who, upon starting a job at General Electric, was given a "fool's errand" by his new team, as a practical joke:
He was tasked with finding a way of frosting light bulbs from the inside, without making them too brittle. Not being aware his assignment was a type of joke, he went about the task as if it was something that could be done and had been done before. The first electric light bulb frosted on the inside with sufficient strength for ordinary handling that could be sold to the public was invented by Pipkin in 1925.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Pipkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Pipkin
- giancarlostoro 7y agoThat is awesome! That's what I took away from that story. Nothing is impossible, only if you believe it is. Might be hard problem with limitations, but you could work it.
- code_duck 7y agoThat's interesting. As a glassblower I don't understand why that ever would have been a difficulty. I suppose they were trying to etch the glass previously, rather than to apply a coating. Huh, it turns out his solution was acid etching the inside of the bulb, which was what I assumed they tried that didn't work.