This 120 Year Old Light Bulb Still Works!

they just don't make them like they used to this adage applies to this light bulb which has literally been flickering longer than Henry Kissinger who just turned 100 has been alive it has been glowing over this Garage in California's Livermore Pleasanton fire department since 1901. 1901 we believe is when the light bulb was donated by Dennis Bernal who owned the Livermore Power and Water Company and he was going out of business he was selling his business and he donated the light bulb to the fire department retired Deputy fire if Tom Bramble should know he's a he's affectionately known as The Guardian of Light you're not allowed to touch it by the way we don't even dust it off he was surprised five years ago when the thing had been burning at that point for only one million hours after being around the bulb for 50 years braml says he's only aware of a couple times it has been out a major one in 2013 after he'd already been retired for a decade oddly enough it wasn't the light bulb it was a an uninterrupted power supply what we did is we bypassed the UPS system with an extension cord at that time and a light bulb came back on other things This little light out shown World Wars one the moon landing 22 presidents even a global pandemic the durable light bulb was made in Shelby Ohio and made its Mark in the Guinness Book of World Records Ripley's Believe It or Not and General Electric it puts out about four watts of light but it's a 60 watt light bulb that showed the electric had to develop it's hand blown the filament is carbon filament and the filament is about half the size thickness of your hair small Mighty and durable enough to stand a test of time I suspect that this light bulb will continually burn another 100 years for Inside Edition digital I'm Stephanie officer foreign [Music]

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Length: 2min 4sec (124 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 19 2023