The world's most durable incandescent light bulb is still shining.
According to Xinhua News Agency, an incandescent bulb in California has been working since its installation and will celebrate its 110th birthday on the 18th. This "resilient" bulb has made it into the Guinness World Records and attracted researchers and people from all over the United States to come and see it.
This bulb is installed inside a fire station in Livermore, California, and was donated by a local electricity operator to the fire department in 1901. Initially, it had some issues and went out for a while due to power outages. Over more than 100 years, it has changed positions several times.
Lynn Owens, who is in charge of organizing the 110th birthday celebration for the bulb, told Time Magazine that this bulb is 60 watts, but now when it is turned on, it is usually only set to 4 watts. As for why it hasn't broken, "no one can explain how this could happen."
"It has always been able to shine," Owens said, "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 once held a competition with Thomas Edison to see who could make the best light bulb in town.
Given the increasing number of people wanting to see this bulb in person, some websites have promptly released "spectator guides": 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 moved into the museum in the future.
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