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Re: New Pilot This Friday - History Hacker
Oct 8, 2008 8:06 PM
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I Tivo'ed this show after seeing a blog post about it on Make magazine's website, and I just got around to watching it. Absolutely exceeded my expectations. I love the magazine and I thought the show was great. I especially liked the glassblowing stuff and the huge friggin' DC generator in the basement of that hotel. I came on here to see if there were any more episodes coming up but I guess they haven't been scheduled yet.
To sovietguy and the other guy whose BS I had to scroll past a hundred times to get to the end of the thread: jesus get over yourselves. Just because they made it interesting doesn't mean it isn't history. But you're right, I probably would have liked it even if there wasn't a lick of history in it. And I've never watched the history channel before either. But while I was on there, I did end up watching a show about gangs that was kind of interesting, and since you guys seem to hate it so much, I think I'm going to record Ice Road Truckers to see what it's all about.
Anyway, now that I've gone to the trouble of posting a message, what other episodes are planned? History of the atom bomb? Maybe history of the computer? Actually I'd like to see some of the really old experiments they did to measure gravity and things like that.
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Re: New Pilot This Friday - History Hacker
Oct 9, 2008 12:02 PM
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>HISTORY HACKER would fit right in with the many other fine shows in the A&E line-up.
So... you want to put a non-fiction show called History Hacker on a channel called Arts and Entertainment.
You could have said TLC or the Discovery Channel, but you chose A&E.
Between A&E and the History Channel, I would say this show is a better fit for the History Channel.
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Re: New Pilot This Friday - History Hacker
Oct 11, 2008 11:55 PM
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> >HISTORY HACKER would fit right in with the many
> other fine shows in the A&E line-up.
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> So... you want to put a non-fiction show called
> History Hacker on a channel called Arts and
> Entertainment.
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> You could have said TLC or the Discovery Channel, but
> you chose A&E.
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> Between A&E and the History Channel, I would say this
> show is a better fit for the History Channel.
My reply was deleted- A&E owns NON-HISTORY that's why I said A&E.
This post is going in circles- so I leave it to you supporters to sing the praises of NON-HISTORY HACKER, in hopes that the gods at NON-HISTORY look favorably upon you.
auf wiedersehn
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Re: New Pilot This Friday - History Hacker
Oct 12, 2008 11:07 AM
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Well I no longer know what is on History channel. I have now blocked the channel on my cable. No longer will I see Loggers, Trucker, Sandhogs and some guy making stuff from Junk in his closet. This is something I thought I would never do. History used to be on my Favorites, now it is blocked. So all I have to say to you people who like this shift in the programming, enjoy it while it lasts.
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Re: New Pilot This Friday - History Hacker
Oct 12, 2008 2:11 PM
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soviet- I heard that NON-HISTORY dropped SANDHOGS- cover story is that it did not garner enough interest- but
I suspect that Thom Beers was behind it's demise.
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Re: New Pilot This Friday - History Hacker
Oct 16, 2008 10:20 PM
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Ltrazordaddio and sovietcollector, your posts concerning the appropriate formatting of The History Channel are right on the money. However this show is not even appropriate for even other channels.......Including A&E.
When you do an educational show for mass viewing I would think that it would be appropriate that it would be 100% accurate on historical aspects. Not 50%.
My main gripe on it is that the accuracy on credits given to Tesla. Tesla did not invent, study or work with neon. But Bre gave alot of credit to him for neons birth. I was taught that neon was originally found by Faraday then critiqued by Geissler around 1835 along with several others through the later 1800?s. From the 1890?s to 1910 light tubes were known as Moore tubes that relied on nitrogen and CO 2. In 1910 Georges Claude came forth with the neon tube. Claude was awarded the patent in early 1915. Now where is Tesla? That?s what I was taught. Is it right? Or was I given bunk info?
If you are going to educate, study first please! Evidently someone during editing didnt catch it also. Sorry Bre, but I did. 20 minutes reading a book dont count, try bending glass and teaching the art for over 20 years then come back for round 2.
And for the record. Dave at Tecnolux is a very talented and knowledgable person. Dont let Bre's lack of knowledge fall on him. Dave knows neon history and the info he gave was probably smitten for sound bites.
Whats next for History Hacker? Micheal Jackson Inventor of the A Bomb? LOL
Comments? Educated? Just google Neon then make a statement....
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Re: New Pilot This Friday - History Hacker
Oct 17, 2008 4:41 AM
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Sorry dude, Bre is RIGHT!
Nikola Tesla displayed his neon lights at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. His innovations in this type of light emission were not regularly patented. Georges Claude invented a neon lamp in 1902, and displayed it in public in 1910.
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Re: New Pilot This Friday - History Hacker
Oct 17, 2008 4:36 PM
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Bre claims invention not display. Just because you touch or display something dont mean you get credit for it. If its Tesla's grand invention whay didnt he hold a patent? He patented almost every piece of his innovative ideas. Oh thats right Tesla's lamp borrowed elements of German physicists Heinrich Geissler's famous electrical tubes. Ah but in 1893 Professor D. McFarlan Moore of GE originated luminous tubes in the US. So no patent fo Tesla since he didnt "Invent" just diplayed.
It works like this, I do have neon dispayed in my shop that was done yesrs before my birth. Just because I may have fixed a tube on it or just show it dont mean I did it. I just own it. Tesla pioneered nothing in neon just used it as basically as an advertisement to promote his AC. So if you want a luminous tube inventor in the US, Moore beats him. As for the father of the neon sign in the US and abroad, Claude holds the patent and not Tesla.
Further more the late 1800's were a time that there was a major world run to see who could claim what. If Tesla was an innovator or inventor of neon he would have a patent to prove the claim. So till a patent number can be posted in your comment. Please I repeat please step a little further out than what the pictures in the high school history book shows.
History is a fun little adventure if you have the time and the skill to unravel its crooks and bends. My life has been primarly focused on neon as a passion not just an interest. So please feel free to challenge. I provide facts, not just claims of what the TV told you.
So if you challenge Claude, what dou have to say about Giessler or even Crooke? Tesla is still out of the race.....
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Re: New Pilot This Friday - History Hacker
Oct 20, 2008 8:59 AM
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I guess you and I are just going to stay on opposite sides- not unlike the political parties. We can both argue until the next millennium but we will never cross over to the other viewpoint. Not all great inventors get the credit due them....especially when the "foreigner" seems to be from another "not-so-great" or "not-as-intelligent-as-us" country.
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Re: New Pilot This Friday - History Hacker
Nov 12, 2008 7:51 PM
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Loved it! Can't wait untill it airs again; I missed the latter half. Had to cut out as you got your box of neons.
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Re: New Pilot This Friday - History Hacker
Nov 13, 2008 10:36 PM
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And what historical topic did he enlighten you on. I didn't say science, or how to make things from junk in your closet.
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