Here she is, inspiring me to make another post about bulbs.
Posted on 10/15/2023 3:42:07 PM PDT by Leaning Right
At more than one million hours of use and counting, this bulb proves that they really don't make things like they used to.
The Centennial Bulb, as this light has come to be known, is the longest-lasting light bulb of all time. It has been burning continuously since 1901, excluding a short interval in 1976 when the bulb was disconnected from electricity for 22 minutes while the firestation was moved to a different location.
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I believe so, yes. Someone from Michigan would be able to confirm it.
Is that a tungsten filament or a carbon filament? I have read that carbon filaments last much longer than Tungsten. Decades longer.
Also, AC or DC?
I just checked, and yes, Fred Upton voted to ban the incandescent lightbulb.
I can imagine the Bee writing a story of The newly hired, after hours clean up lady.
“On her first shift, she saw that ‘dim bulb’ hanging, so she promptly took it out and replaced it with a new led bulb.
The ‘dim bulb’? That was thrown in the trash compactor, why?”
Sidebar:
Kate Upton on the 10 dollar bill would be nice.
Sorry Mr. Hamilton.
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Here she is, inspiring me to make another post about bulbs.
This shows you that BIG BULB conspired to make cheap light bulbs that would burn out when they could make ones that last.... : )
I say the same thing all the time. Raw materials get shipped to China, made into low quality products that last 3-7 years and then they get shipped back, sold at walmart and then get buried in our landfills.
All the transport plus the short life span = 20 times emissions as making something here that lasts a lifetime.
Buy a rebuilt starter or alternator in the last 20 years? It was taken from your local parts store to a central location to be shipped to Mexico for less than 30 minutes of labor to be performed. Chinese components are put in. Then it gets shipped back here and distributed throughout the nation to your local parts store.
Every decent sized town used to have an auto electric shop that did that on the spot.
Which one's greener?
Yeah, everything is political because the politicians have wrecked everything.
> Is that a tungsten filament or a carbon filament? <
It’s a carbon filament bulb. I just checked. You can still buy carbon filament light bulbs on Amazon. I’m not quite sure why anyone would want to do that. To give your house a Victorian look, maybe?
#27 Kate has a couple nice high wattage bulbs... : )
A half hour of way too much information on incandescent light bulbs and the trade offs between light and lifespan. Many bulbs give up their lives to show what happens when you run much closer to tungsten's melting point to get more light.
Lol! Nicely done.
You ask if it was ever off.
It is at a fire station. Fire stations have backup power usually a diesel generator so the station can respond to any emergency.
That fire station is many miles away from any rail or subway lines.
That photo doesn’t really show the actual location. That desk is behind barriers so that no one can get to it. It is set up to look like it is used. Only for show. Look do not touch.
I got one outside light that has been going for 37 years goes on when gets dark for a total of 162,060 Hours.
They got bulbs still burning at Edison’s lab too that were there from when he first opened the place. But Westinghouse realized if they produced bulbs that lasted forever, they could only sell each person one set of light bulbs. If they sold them bulbs that burned out after a year, they could sell them light bulbs forever. So “planned obsolescence” was born.
Fred Upton is not the brightest bulb.
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