{"id":260,"date":"2012-06-06T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/Wordpress\/?p=260"},"modified":"2018-12-17T11:55:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T11:55:15","slug":"the_100_year_old_light_bulb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/the_100_year_old_light_bulb","title":{"rendered":"The 100-Year-Old Light Bulb"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"image\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" alt=\"An old bulb\" src=\"\/images\/NewsImages\/2012\/oldest-lightbulb.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-size: 10pt;\" class=\"caption\">The world&#8217;s longest glowing light bilb in Fire Station 6, in Livermore, northern California<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The world&#8217;s oldest working <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/office-interiors\/office-lighting\/c-1923\">light bulb<\/a> is approaching its 112th birthday. On June 18th, the Guinness World Record-holding bulb will have been glowing in local fire stations in Livermore, California, for 112 years. Since 1901 the longest the bulb has been turned off is a mere week.<\/p>\n<p>Now known as the Centennial Bulb, it was donated to the local fire brigade by Adolphe Chailet, a competitor of Thomas Edison. Although he was never as successful as the shamelessly entrepreneurial Edison, Chailet&#8217;s light bulbs were proved to survive higher voltages.<\/p>\n<h2>Other old things still working<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Harry Cox&#8217;s American Sturtevant vacuum cleaner No.4, sucking since 1904.<\/li>\n<li>Rosemary Kinghorn&#8217;s Frigidaire, still keeping food cool after 76 years.<\/li>\n<li>The FACOM 128B computer was built in 1958. It occupies 700 feet of floor space in Japan&#8217;s Ikeda Memorial Hall and has less computing power than a pocket calculator.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Source<\/i>: Gracie Murano for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oddee.com\/item_98116.aspx\" onclick=\"PS.Core.Popup(this, 800, 600);return false;\" title=\"Opens in a new window\">oddee.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s longest glowing light bilb in Fire Station 6, in Livermore, northern California The world&#8217;s oldest working light bulb is approaching its 112th birthday. On June 18th, the Guinness World Record-holding bulb will have been glowing in local fire stations in Livermore, California, for 112 years. 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