Agreed about moving it.
Funny things is, current LED tech makes the entire incan section 'the vintage' section.
Awesome info desert snake.
About Daylo: Eveready had a contest in the late 1910's to rename the flashlight. Since the tungsten filament had been invented it no longer poofed quickly so an electric light could run steady instead having to flash on and off before the lousy batteries failed or the carbon filament popped. Runtimes were now in the minutes instead of seconds. Later Charles Burgess created batteries that could last hours with a shelf life beyond a few weeks. He was the PK of that era. The casings were perfected by shoving zinc tubes over tool handles. C size was a rake handle and D was a shovel handle. The chemistry was perfected using funds paid by a local phone company during his spare time.
What a marvelous thing that must've been. Electric fire on a stick that burned longer than a match stick. Woohoo.
Anyway, owner of Eveready Conrad Hubert did a promo to come up with a name and the winner was the term Daylo that indicated "daylight" from a flashlight. He spent millions on the promo that did not catch on.
He wanted folks to call his battery powered lights Daylo's instead of flashlights. Eveready Daylo lights were issued to America troops during the first world war. That was part of the Daylo promotion.
So that Ruskie light could have been used while fighting the Nazis during the second big one.
Funny things is, current LED tech makes the entire incan section 'the vintage' section.
Awesome info desert snake.
About Daylo: Eveready had a contest in the late 1910's to rename the flashlight. Since the tungsten filament had been invented it no longer poofed quickly so an electric light could run steady instead having to flash on and off before the lousy batteries failed or the carbon filament popped. Runtimes were now in the minutes instead of seconds. Later Charles Burgess created batteries that could last hours with a shelf life beyond a few weeks. He was the PK of that era. The casings were perfected by shoving zinc tubes over tool handles. C size was a rake handle and D was a shovel handle. The chemistry was perfected using funds paid by a local phone company during his spare time.
What a marvelous thing that must've been. Electric fire on a stick that burned longer than a match stick. Woohoo.
Anyway, owner of Eveready Conrad Hubert did a promo to come up with a name and the winner was the term Daylo that indicated "daylight" from a flashlight. He spent millions on the promo that did not catch on.
He wanted folks to call his battery powered lights Daylo's instead of flashlights. Eveready Daylo lights were issued to America troops during the first world war. That was part of the Daylo promotion.
So that Ruskie light could have been used while fighting the Nazis during the second big one.
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