Historical images - Images that made history

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The "Centennial Bulb" in a fire station in Livermore, California, which has shone for 1,000,000 hours since around 1900
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Longest burning light bulb

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Same reason an iPhone battery shits the bed so fast: planned obsolescence, i.e. $$$
 
Devyn said:
The "Centennial Bulb" in a fire station in Livermore, California, which has shone for 1,000,000 hours since around 1900
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Same reason an iPhone battery shits the bed so fast: planned obsolescence, i.e. $$$
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Well, the adage that the bulb that burns twice as bright lasts half as long has truth to it. The centennial bulb is very dim, like a child’s nightlight, and so would naturally burn less of its very long filament. Brighter bulbs began to dominate the market because people who bought light bulbs simply wanted brighter bulbs and were willing to replace them more often. This would have driven light bulb prices down in a feedback loop until it reached where filament bulbs could light up a room alone, lasted a few months, but cost very little to purchase or manufacture.
This is why; with their combination of brightness, color control, longevity, and decreasing prices, LEDs are becoming so omnipresent over halogen bulbs, even though the latter actually had conspiracy-level control over the market when it was introduced.
People like to complain about planned obsolescence, but really it’s an intersection of 1) using cheaper (i.e. Chinese) material, 2) serendipity of people just replacing the unit outright rather than repairing the battery (which is why Right to Repair court cases are such a big deal, and everyone should at least be aware of what they’re trying to achieve), and 3) as far as control over material quality, every company just wants good enough to avoid lawsuits with merit (as opposed to control over digital goods, where they are becoming a way for the government to circumvent the constitution in the US, elsewhere in the world already lived in a rightsless nightmare before big tech even existed).
Complaining about planned obsolescence is retarded when you still buy the fucking thing anyway
 
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Still-life with stuffed and mounted rooster and parakeet
by Louis Ducos du Hauron in 1879
One of the first coloured photographs ever (colour transparency, created with three layered images each in a different hue)

I'm so used to just seeing hand-tinted antique photos it was a bit of a shock to come across this. The depth and richness of colour is amazing
 
This image will go down In the history books. This image will one day be seen as a great work of art and shared all over the world.

This was taken from the January 6th protests.
 

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The UPS one is kind of understandable. Drivers are paid extremely well for the work, but they're held to some truly batshit standards as to time to deliver, pick up, how packages are signed for, etc. Don't blame the guy for being full-on tunnel vision.

The Matthew Brady Civil War photos are kind of interesting, in the sense that nobody had ever seen anything quite like them before. (I think photography was not advanced enough to go outside of studios during the Crimean War.) Especially stuff like the dead on battlefields. He did at least one show in Washington DC while the war was going on, full on corpses mixed in with portraits of generals or soldiers marching.

The dead at Antietam:
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Dead Reb at Devil's Den (Battle of Gettysburg):
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Cold Harbor (April 1865) - IIRC this is the one attack Grant is on record as regretting having made. But the bones are actually from Chancellorsville, three years earlier, fought on or near the same ground. Known only to God, etc.
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The UPS one is kind of understandable. Drivers are paid extremely well for the work, but they're held to some truly batshit standards as to time to deliver, pick up, how packages are signed for, etc. Don't blame the guy for being full-on tunnel vision.

The Matthew Brady Civil War photos are kind of interesting, in the sense that nobody had ever seen anything quite like them before. (I think photography was not advanced enough to go outside of studios during the Crimean War.) Especially stuff like the dead on battlefields. He did at least one show in Washington DC while the war was going on, full on corpses mixed in with portraits of generals or soldiers marching.

The dead at Antietam:
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Dead Reb at Devil's Den (Battle of Gettysburg):
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Cold Harbor (April 1865) - IIRC this is the one attack Grant is on record as regretting having made. But the bones are actually from Chancellorsville, three years earlier, fought on or near the same ground. Known only to God, etc.
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Chancellorsville was elsewhere. This was at Cold Harbor, like you said, but the dead were from a previous battle there, during the Seven Days Battle. At the second Cold Harbor, 10,000 Union soldiers went down in a half an hour. They so much knew that they were going to die that they pinned their names and addresses on their shirts so their families could be notified.
 
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