Touch Lamps Date Back to the 1950s
Technology Connections · Explainer · YouTube title: The touch lamp; a neat idea, and older than you'd think!
Why it's here
HN uses it as an example of Google's search answers confidently giving the wrong date for the invention.
What it covers
Technology Connections explains how touch lamps work and traces them back through patents to the 1950s, far earlier than most people assume.