[78-L] Tinfoil (was: Sound for early silent films Was: whatawhiner!)

[Leroy Barco]

Of course, "soldering" had been around a long time before electricity was
tamed and run through wires.
Also albums before flat records and clothes pressing irons before the
Sunbeam appliance appeared.

Why would the mention of "solder" lead to the automatic assumption of the
electric soldering "iron?"

LeRoy

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:31 PM, martha <MLK402 at verizon.net> wrote:

>  Telegraph, telephone, and electric lighting wires all used soldered
> connections in the 19th Century.  There are also patents for electric
> soldering irons from the 1880s, if not earlier.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
>
> >>
> > Quite close...except that neither the "soldering iron" (in ANY form) nor
> > the electronic devices requiring soldered connections of wires had at
> > that point been invented...?! "Soldering" was in those early days a
> > convenient and inexpensive method to fasten two metal objects
> > together...it wasn't until the end of WWI that those "objects" were
> > wires...?!
>
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