When you think of bamboo and electricity, what is the first thing that comes to mind?

Kind of an odd pair, as most of us aren't really looking around the house and asking ourselves,

you know, I wonder what would happen if I combined a head of cauliflower with watercolors.

Well, you would probably have a very messy head of cauliflower, watercolors. Well, you would probably have a very messy head of

cauliflower, I would imagine. But light. Yeah. Walk into any modern day home or office and with

the ease of a switch, there is light. Instantly, mindlessly, even. The light in our houses

in office today, it came from a brilliant idea. It's been around for more than 150 years.

So there used to be a guy in his name was Humphrey Davy. And he was a chemist and an inventor that studied electricity in the early 19th century.

And he invented an electric battery.

So without him, we would never be able to charge our phones with one of those little

portable things.

But after long hours, and I'm sure many cookies later, and along with some deep thought,

tinkering Mr. Davy, well, he eventually developed a light that he could see in the dark.

He learned that when he connected wires from his battery to a piece of carbon, he gave off light,

the electric arc lamp, as he called it, kind of hard to say.

But it was an invention that would open the door and change in the world in every possible way.

So a number of inventors, they had produced light bulbs, quote-unquote, over the next 70 years.

But no one had cracked the code enough for those light bulbs, quote unquote, over the next 70 years. But no one had cracked the code enough

for those light bulbs to be of commercial use. But in 1850, an English physicist named

Joseph Wilson Swan, he enclosed the carbonized paper filaments and a glass bulb to create a light bulb.

The problem being, however, is his light bulb had a shorter lifespan than others.

Fast forward to a guy that you eventually will have heard of, Thomas Edison,

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