A lightbulb shining since 1901?

[Coito ergo sum]

Not the brightest bulb

By Lili Ladaga – Wed Jun 22, 8:28 pm ET
Everywhere you look, people are telling you how to go green: Walk. Recycle. Compost. Turn off the water. Turn off the lights.
But it looks like there's one place in America that didn't get the memo. The firehouse in Livermore, California has a light that's been on for 110 years. (Yes, YEARS. Not hours. Not minutes. YEARS).
Granted, it's only 4 watts, but that's what is believed to be the source of the bulb's longevity. The hand-blown globe was installed in 1901 and there's even a "bulb-cam" website where you can watch it ... being on.

Bulb cam: http://www.centennialbulb.org/cam.htm

[Animavore]

I've seen this on a program somewhere.

[Bella Fortuna]

Next time I'm near Livermore I'll have to go look at it (OK, I probably won't, but maybe I will!)

[Svartalf]

It's all a matter of not passing so much power through the filament that it ionizes to death and breaks.
I've had a halogen bulb that I use all the time, just not at full power, and that I haven't had to change since december 1994.

[Feck]

So the fire house hasn't been rewired since 1901 ...do they know how much of a fire-risk that is ? How the fuck do they get past their insurance and building codes etc ?

[Tyrannical]

So the fire house hasn't been rewired since 1901 ...do they know how much of a fire-risk that is ? How the fuck do they get past their insurance and building codes etc ?

They even moved the light bulb under police guard when they changed fire houses.

[Atheist-Lite]

So the fire house hasn't been rewired since 1901 ...do they know how much of a fire-risk that is ? How the fuck do they get past their insurance and building codes etc ?

They even moved the light bulb under police guard when they changed fire houses.

How'd it stay switched on through that?

[FBM]

No power outtagtes in 110 years? That's the real story, IMO...