According to Wikipedia Vasily Vladimirovich Petrov developed the first persistent electric arc in 1802, and English chemist Humphry Davy gave a practical demonstration of an arc light in 1806, using a battery and a platinum strip to produce a brief glow. Thomas Edison didn’t invent the lightbulb, but his lab discovered a tungsten filament that glowed without the heat produced by his rival’s thicker version.

Throughout the years lightbulbs has progressed from incandescent to halogen then fluorescent to the current LED bulbs dominating the market.

None are manufactured in the USA.

Yesterday I was at the nearby 99 cent store on Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn. A four-pack of 75 watt bulbs cost $6.99 plus tax. Every boxes was from China even familiar name brands such as GE and Sylvania. With the current Trump tariff of 145% on Chinese goods the price of lightbulbs will rise to $17, if China even bothers shipping any goods to MAGA America or receiving anything from America mostly soybeans, crude petroleum, and petroleum gas with the gap of trade being $145 billion for the USA to Chinese’s $445 billion creating a gap on $300 billion.

AI Overview figures opening a new factory in the USA will take take anywhere from 5 to 10 years, especially when building a new facility from scratch, including compliance with various regulatory requirements. This timeframe also considers the need to reskill a workforce and build infrastructure, which can take several years.

Before the light bulb people cooked their lit their houses with oil, candles, and fire.

Over a hundred years ago.

Oh, darkness darkness.

In a yeasr America from out of space will be as dark as North Korea or even darker, but Fattie Trump will have the guidance of Elon’s AI, the St James Only God, and Russian teenage hookers from his pimp Putin. That is the future of this land from Sea to Shining Sea at least for the Man at the Top.