Re: PHOTO-3D digest 1359

[P3D Bob Howard <bobh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RE: Guide Number.. Bob Wier and Greg!

First.."Blue Dots for Sure Shots!" Bob is going to tell you is the 
slogan of Sylvania..but it isn't (or wasn't 'til later!) It was the 
slogan of Wabash Lamp Co. who made the first flashbulbs in the USA 
perhaps licensing Osram patents. Sylvania bought Wabash..and NOW it is 
full circle when I got a letter from OSRAM-Sylvania Winchester KY when I 
returned a halogen bulb that didn't last over 300 hours when it was 
supposed to give 3000. (a fancy household lamp with thick bulb and 
internal transformer and small lamp.) And my alma mater Westinghouse 
Lamp is now in the clutches of NORELCO, Horth American Philips. So the 
Americans have sold out for pieces of silver. 
For Greg..a guide number computed from notes and tests does not have the 
inaccuracy of the strobe lights computed in a white bathroom!! (My most 
choice moment was finding GE had copied an error I made on a 
Westinghouse guide number chart!!! We fixed ours!) One error I didn't 
make but received the evidence, was when a guy sent in a wrapper from a 
number !! photoflash lamp and asked "What's a BLUB"? Our wrapper clearly 
said, "No. 11 Photofash Blub"..as did all the no. 11's in the warehouse 
and one the rubber matts that printed cartons and on the art works. In a 
lamp bulb factory no one ever read past the "b" as "bulb" was everywhere 
you looked except on this carton. BobH


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