The Twisted Tungsten Traditional Geocache

Your mission if you choose to except it: The tungsten has gotten twisted at this electrical plant and it's up to you to find it and restore the light! Please return exactly as you found it because without the tungsten the cache is blown!  This is the second of the Party Mike Nifty Nano Series. Best of luck to the FTF!!

In December 1904, Hungarian Sander Just and Croatian Franjo Hanaman were granted a Hungarian patent (No. 34541) for a tungsten filament lamp that lasted longer and gave brighter light than the carbon filament. Tungsten filament lamps were first marketed by the Hungarian company Tungsram in 1904. This type is often called Tungsram-bulbs in many European countries. Their experiments also showed that the luminosity of bulbs filled with an inert gas was higher than in vacuum. The tungsten filament outlasted all other types.

In 1906, the General Electric Company patented a method of making filaments from sintered tungsten and in 1911, used ductile tungsten wire for incandescent light bulbs.

Burle Business Park is Lancaster's only commerical and industrial park. In 1986 this park was owned by none other then the GE Electric Company which included the production of the tungsten filament in the incandescent light bulb!