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Following on from Edison´s first lightbulb moment back in 1879, the OU´s Stephen Serjeant, from the Faculty of Science, experiments with an alternative power source - the humble potato.

 

 

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TweetFollowing on from Edison´s first lightbulb moment back in 1879, the OU´s Stephen Serjeant, from the Faculty of Science, experiments with an alternative power source - the humble potato.     Useful links Science at the OU     1.25 Your rating: None Average: 1.3 (4 votes)

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Steve Kelleher - Sun, 28/08/2011 - 14:28

Following on from Edison´s first lightbulb moment back in 1879

Yeah following on from Sir

Joseph Swans writ against Edison for taking his idea more like.

Edison had a light bulb moment you mean!

caterpillar100 - Sat, 16/01/2010 - 14:54

That was an inspired bit of film. I really enjoyed it. I have run a clock from electricity in soil, but I have never tried a potato......

serjeant - Mon, 09/03/2009 - 18:32

Hello everyone. The main reason I didn't want you to eat the potatoes afterwards is that I've no idea what raggedy / dirty bits of metal went into them, so I've no idea what could be in the potatoes afterwards, and I don't want to hear from m'learned friends if it all went horribly wrong... I didn't eat the ones in the video, but mainly because I left them in a bag and forgot about them and they went all green & sprouty :)

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