2 Jan
2020
2 Jan
'20
3:21 p.m.
On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 3:04 PM Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
loud. In the 60s, I worked at a naval air station where a visiting photographer was severely burned when all the flashbulbs <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Brownie_Hawkeye_with_Flash.jpg> went off in his pockets. (That sparkly stuff is "magnesium wool"!))
The radar caused the flashes to go off? Wow! I'm not quite old enough to remember single-flash bulbs, though they must have still been in use when I was a kid, but I do remember flashcubes: https://tinyurl.com/rldhhgv -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://math.ucr.edu/~mike https://reperiendi.wordpress.com