World's most durable bulb to celebrate 110th birthday (Pic)

by yanw829pxue on 2012-03-07 09:46:17

The world's most durable incandescent bulb is still shining. According to Xinhua News Agency, an incandescent bulb in California has been working ever since it was installed and will celebrate its 110th birthday on the 18th. This "resilient" bulb has made it into the Guinness World Records and has attracted researchers and people from all over the United States to come and see it. This bulb is installed in a fire station in Livermore, California, and was donated to the fire department by a local electricity operator in 1901. It had some initial problems and was turned off for a while due to power outages, and it has changed positions several times in the past 100 years. Lynn Owens, who is responsible for organizing the 110th birthday celebration of the bulb, told Time Magazine that this is a 60-watt bulb, but now when it is turned on, it is usually only adjusted to 4 watts. As for why it hasn't broken, "no one can explain how this happened." "It has always been able to shine," said Owens. "We have invited researchers from all over the country to come and see this bulb." The designer of this bulb is Adolphe Chaillet. More than a hundred years ago, Chaillet held a competition with the inventor of the light bulb, Thomas Edison, to see who could make the best light bulb in town. Given that more and more people want to see this bulb in person, some websites have timely released "spectator guidelines": walk to the back door of the fire station, press the doorbell, and a firefighter will come to open the door; if no one answers, you can look through the window glass, the bulb is at the top of the wall near the left side. If you want to contact the fire station directly, the phone number is... Although this bulb is still "alive", a local museum has already informed the fire station that it will be housed in the museum in the future. Comments are welcome. I want to comment. Weibo recommendation | Today's Weibo hot topics (Editor: SN009)