[Leaning Right]

Something nonpolitical for a Sunday evening.

[EvilCapitalist]

Light bulbs make me think of Fred Upton, which makes me think of Kate Upton.

[Clutch Martin]

I have two light bulbs in my master bedroom closet that are 22 years old. I find that amazing.

[xp38]

Everything is political according to the left. This type of bulb has been outlawed for sale by the dims.

[joma89]

Thanks. I know I needed a break. Thomas Edison was a great man.

[poinq]

I light bulb that is never switched off has less wear and tear. It also has a sturdier fulfillment. Our businesses have no reason to make things that last. When people think of pollution, they should consider all those companies who make things designed to break. They are the biggest polluters.

But I don’t believe it has never been off. Our electric grid is not that perfect anywhere. So its been off. Maybe its never been turned off but it can’ have been on the whole time.

[tomkat]

With that kind of history, the owners really oughta put a cage around it.

Guy walks thru the room with a ladder, his buddy hollers at him, he turns quickly ... OOPS !

[BitWielder1]

It does not look like that bulb is powered by the intended voltage.
Most incandescent bulbs could last for a century on a voltage that barely makes it glow.

[libh8er]

It’s not how long a bulb has remained lit that causes it to die. It’s the turning off and on.

[A strike]

Du-uh, if a lightbulb can last for 120 years, how can we sell new light bulbs?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

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?

[lee martell]

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?”

[minnesota_bound]

This shows you that BIG BULB conspired to make cheap light bulbs that would burn out when they could make ones that last.... : )

[KarlInOhio]

Technology Connections episode on incandescent light 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.

[Boogieman]

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.

[Songcraft]

At the opposite end of the spectrum, Phony-Prez Joe has a lightbulb in his head that hasn't worked at all in over 80 years now.


      

[Deplorable American1776]

I believe it is in Livermore, California.

[SaveFerris]

[excluding a short interval in 1976 when the bulb was disconnected from electricity for 22 minutes]



No insult to Gerald Ford intended whatsoever. But a slight excuse just to use a movie gif! :)

Of course, being Hollywood, that same movie also insulted Ronald Reagan and Anita Bryant (no doubt thanks to Harvey Milk)

[Gaffer]

Incandescent light bulbs last their longest when switched on and never turned off. They nearly always burn out during that sudden rush of current hits the filament before it’s resistance can rise above a pure short. Thus the bright flash.