The Attrition Rate in the Industrial Revolution

Gel: The only portion of the day where some kind of schedule was set in stone for Edison was that lunch happened at midnight. He would play this fun little game and he did it here on this night where he went and he had one of the lab assistants get a dictionary of solubilities. And Edmund Morris writes he scornfully pointed out an entry stating that platinum was infusible except in the heat of an oxygen flame. Gel: Look in here now you see along the magnified wire a number of little globules that is where the platinum is fused.