Template:Did you know nominations/Marvin Pipkin


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:46, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Marvin Pipkin

 * ... that Marvin Pipkin invented the first electric light bulb frosted on the inside with sufficient strength for ordinary handling that could be sold to the public?
 * Source 1, Kane {1964) -  "The first electric lamp bulb frosted on the inside with sufficient strength for commercial handling was invented by Marvin Pipkin of the Incandescent Lamp Department of the General Electric Company at Nela Park, Ohio. "
 * Source 2 Encyclopedia Americana (1955) "In 1925, Marvin Pipkin invented the first commercially successful electric lamp bulb to be frosted on the inside."-
 * ALT1:... that ...? Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Junayd of Aydın

5x expanded by Doug Coldwell (talk). Self-nominated at 14:45, 22 December 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg, 5x expanded, in time, long enough, sourced, inline hook citation checks out (you don't need to have all those quotations in "Sources," by the way), no apparent copyvios, QPQ done. --Usernameunique (talk) 20:01, 22 December 2017 (UTC)