Time to play Humpday Triviola

Oak?

Great guess...but no.

How about ...

Gary Camp, Bend, Oregon

a once common tree, that doesn't really exist anymore?

glc

Nope...but a hint.

Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

A hint...Perhaps the original question is obvious but we are talking about the telephone and the light bulb.

Re: Time to play Humpday Triviola

John Veerkamp, Western Mo

Ebony?

Another good guess but no.

Bamboo?

Dan Wins the Golden Uni!  Answer

Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

Yep...Dan is correct! Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone was made of bamboo, and Thomas Edison used a bamboo filament to create the world's first light bulb.

Well done sir!

T.

Could it be used for telephone Poles

Ken Oakley-Sunny St. Cloud, Fla

and or light poles?

Didn't see Dan's answer before I posted.

Re: Dan Wins the Golden Uni!  Answer

Dan Donaldson

That one I just happened to remember. Thomas Edison's Menlo Park lab is in the Greenfield village where we have been members for the last 30 or so years. I guess at least a little bit of the stuff I have heard over the years has rubbed off

Technical definition.

Gary Smyth

It doesn't change the answer but is bamboo a wood? I was lectured once that it is not wood but grass. True, it is used in flooring, and scaffolding and has many of the properties of wood, but it is a different class. As I said at the outset it doesn't change the answer just curious.

Re: Technical definition.

Dale Lenz

My thought also, Gary. Was at work last night, on another computer than my own and did not want to jump though hoops to post.