LEDs older than we thought

[BobbyMac]

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/04/led-older-than-we-thought.html

 

[Random717]

wow, i wonder if there are any insane discoveries out now that are being ignored by mainstream science?

btw anyone hear anything more about that guy who was on Carte Blanche with his 'magic' substance locater?

 

[McSack]

Nigerian drug lords bought his patent and burnt all design copies

 

[Rikus]

The first report on light-emitting diodes, shown in Fig. 1.1, was published by Henry Joseph
Round (1907). Round was a radio engineer and a prolific inventor who, by the end of his career,
held 117 patents. These first light-emitting devices had rectifying current–voltage characteristics;

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