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1. It Is Not Easy To Find Snipe Even With A
Flashlight

2. When I was in college I lived in a fraternity my
freshman year.

3. One night all of the freshman pledges were taken to
a farm along with some of the more senior fraternity
members.

4. After a good amount of beer was consumed, the
pledges were each given a brown paper bag and we
were taken out into a forested area on the property.

5. We were told that we were going snipe hunting.

6. I had never heard of a snipe before, but was told that
it was a small sized lizard.

7. The premise, as it was explained to me and the other
pledges, was that the older fraternity members were
going to go to the other side of the trees, make noise
and drive the snipes in our direction so that we could
trap them in our paper bags.

8. To make a long story short, this was all a prank.

9. There is no such thing as a snipe.

10. I wish that I had had two things with me that night,
common sense and a flashlight.

11. It turns out that a man by the
name of Conrad Hubert felt that
having something like what we
now know as a flashlight would
be a good idea, so in 1890 he
developed the first hand held
torch.

12. It was Conrad Hubert who went on to become the
founder of the Eveready company, which is well
known today not only for its flashlights but also for its
batteries.

13. Not to mention its Eveready Bunny.

14. The first version of the portable torch or flashlight
made by Hubert were fashioned from crude paper and
fiber tubes that had connected to them both a bulb
and a brass reflector.

15. The bulbs were made of a carbon filament, which
when used were only able to create a brief flash of
light, thus the name flashlight was born.

16. In 1898, The National Carbon Company introduced the
first D cell battery.

17. After its introduction, the first working flashlights,
tubes made with thin aluminum and housing two D
cell batteries were manufactured.

18. These units had an incandescent bulb and a plastic
reflector.

19. There level of light was quite dim in comparison to
today's flashlights and there available time of use was
very limited.

20. And so it was that in 1898, Conrad Hubert, a Russian
immigrant, acquired a patent for his first Eveready
flashlight.

21. Hubert continued to build his company and in 1906
he sold one half of the interest in his company to the
National Carbon Company for the sum of two hundred
thousand dollars.

22. Hubert's invention was well received by a public that
from the beginning of time had a need and a desire for
some sort of hand held light source.

23. Up to that point in time, oil lamps, candles, torches
and kerosene lamps had all been invented and
designed to be carried around but they were all
dangerous as a source of light due to their flame.

24. Although there have been
many improvements over the
years in flashlight design,
today's modern flashlights
generally still work the same
as Hubert's invention and
consist of the same basic
parts.

25. The most commonly used light sources in today's
flashlights are either incandescent light bulbs or
LEDS.

26. The incandescent light bulbs have a tungsten
filament that is housed in a glass bulb.

27. LEDS or Light Emitting Diodes are electronic
elements, or essentially semiconductors that emit
light.

28. LEDS are much more efficient than incandescent
light bulbs and are able to last a lot longer for the
user.

29. Today's LED flashlights come in a wide variety of
shapes and sizes.

30. Some come made as key rings or pens.

31. Others are made to be mounted onto helmets or to
are made to be used as headlights.

32. Many individuals now find it convenient to use the
LED light that comes installed on their smart phones.

33. With his flashlight, Conrad Hubert invented
something that has more uses today than he could
have possibly ever imagined.