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The World's Longest-Burning Light Bulb Has Shone for 110 Years
Popular Mechanics ^
| Nov 18, 2014
| Rachel Z. Arndt
Posted on 08/25/2019 7:30:54 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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Something nonpolitical for a Sunday. And perhaps also a reminder of a time when America built things that lasted. Unfortunately, this bulb type was made for only a year. So dont bother searching for one at your local hardware store. :)
Although this article is almost five years old, Wikipedia says that this bulb is still burning.
To: Leaning Right
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posted on
08/25/2019 7:36:35 AM PDT
by
CtBigPat
(Qanon - Please be real...)
To: Leaning Right
“Unfortunately, this bulb type was made for only a year. So dont bother searching for one at your local hardware store”
If they hadn’t stopped making these the lightbulb indusrty would have died adout 99 years ago.
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posted on
08/25/2019 7:36:44 AM PDT
by
READINABLUESTATE
(You cannot solidify control and power over people who are able to defend themselves.)
To: Leaning Right
“Something nonpolitical for a Sunday.”
Nonpolitical? That light bulb is a monument to male patriarchy and white supremacy as well as a benchmark in the industrial revolution that caused climate change which has a disproportionate impact on transgendered people and vegans.
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posted on
08/25/2019 7:42:46 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
To: Leaning Right
Last year I bought some LEDs guaranteed to last 13 years. They lasted just as long as a 100 watt Incandescent but cost 10 times more than the Incandescent bulbs.
To: READINABLUESTATE
Or people would have just thrown it out.
it started at 60 watts and has since faded to 4 watts.
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posted on
08/25/2019 7:49:59 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Who's the leader of the club that feeds on dead babies? M-O-L... O-C-H... M-O-U-S-E.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I miss incandescent bulbs, primarily because I don’t have to treat a burned-out incandescent as hazardous waste.
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posted on
08/25/2019 7:50:43 AM PDT
by
ZirconEncrustedTweezers
(Posting from deep within enemy territory - San Jose, CA)
To: Rebelbase
Don’t forget that the very idea of an on/off switch is an offence against the non-binary.
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posted on
08/25/2019 7:51:30 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Who's the leader of the club that feeds on dead babies? M-O-L... O-C-H... M-O-U-S-E.)
The Shelby bulb was never the brightestit started at
60 watts and has since faded to 4 watts.
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posted on
08/25/2019 7:54:51 AM PDT
by
deport
To: Rebelbase
Something nonpolitical for a Sunday.
Nonpolitical? That light bulb is a monument to male patriarchy and white supremacy as well as a benchmark in the industrial revolution that caused climate change which has a disproportionate impact on transgendered people and vegans.
That’s right! The fairies, dwarfs, elves, and pixies have already succumbed to this modern evil. Their just nowhere to be found, alas!
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posted on
08/25/2019 7:57:29 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Leaning Right
I heard about it in high school...late 70s.
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posted on
08/25/2019 7:57:41 AM PDT
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gundog
( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
To: Rebelbase
Ha! Youre right. That nasty ol light bulb has contributed to Global Warming for 118 years now. Some liberal PhD should apply for a grant to study how this bulb has affected glaciers and polar bears.
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posted on
08/25/2019 7:59:28 AM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
To: KarlInOhio
Pretty sure the reason that this one has lasted so long is that it isn’t switched off and on very often, if at all.
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posted on
08/25/2019 8:00:01 AM PDT
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gundog
( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
To: Leaning Right
Gee, and I thought that our two 33 year old functioning light bulbs were pretty amazing. One of them has been used almost every day during this time and they have survived several moves.
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posted on
08/25/2019 8:01:02 AM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: gundog
An old carpenter once bragged that he was still using his Grandad's claw hammer that had been passed down.
*The handle had only been replaced 12 times and the head twice over the decades.
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posted on
08/25/2019 8:06:58 AM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
To: gundog
That, and the filament looks quite sturdy. There was a bulb hanging at the old Shakespeare Club building in my hometown that was nearly 100 years old and still working. It was claimed it was made by Edison himself (or his lab staff) but that may be wishful thinking.
To: Leaning Right
The stronger the vacuum the longer the bulb will last. Light bulbs are designed to burn out after a certain amount of time. They could easily make them last 10-20 years.
To: Leaning Right
I actually did buy some 10-year incandescent bulbs, back when they were being shoved out of our lives. They are rated to burn continuously for those 10 years, roughly 82,000 hours, far longer than typical incandescents. The way they achieved that was to burn cooler and dimmer for the same wattage - thus they were even less efficient. But for some locations, where changing the bulb is a really big deal, like in a nuclear plant, where a shutdown might be required to reach it, the bulbs made perfect sense.
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posted on
08/25/2019 8:18:20 AM PDT
by
BobL
(I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
[Last year I bought some LEDs guaranteed to last 13 years. They lasted just as long as a 100 watt Incandescent but cost 10 times more than the Incandescent bulbs.]
I suspect there’s an asterisk in there somewhere, as in the longevity is predicated on them not being installed in enclosed fixtures. My bare bulb installations have been going for 3 years, 16 hours a day. And these are store brands. In fact they’ve lasted longer than my CFL’s. And best of all, vs incandescents, they pay for themselves in the first month of 16 hours a day usage.
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posted on
08/25/2019 8:19:24 AM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
To: READINABLUESTATE
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08/25/2019 8:19:25 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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