111 years old light bulb

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You know how things happen to break just a short time after the warranty runs out right? We’ve all heard stories how they don’t make things to last anymore.
Yea right – but we live in modern times, today we can only make things better!

Well, this story is about 111 years old light bulb – it’s called Centennial Bulb. And it is not the only long-lasting bulb, there are a few others but less known. Coincidence or better engineering? The latter, I believe.

As it appears, the bulb has been continuously on for 111 years (since 1901) with just a handful of times being turned off for short period. That’s over 972360 hours. The irony is that it outlasted a couple of webcams that have been recording it. And that today’s so-called modern light bulbs are guaranteed to last for 1000 hours. In the early days light bulbs were guaranteed to last for 2500 hours (and then re-engineered to shorten life span instead of the opposite).

Planned obsolescence anyone?

It is not an amazing sight (especially their website) but it is worth seeing or perhaps even visiting the place.

Take a look here:
http://www.centennialbulb.org

And webcam sight:
http://www.centennialbulb.org/cam.htm

They certainly don’t make things like that anymore.

Here is an interesting documentary on the topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5DCwN28y8o

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Phazze (Zvonko Tesic) is entrepreneur, programmer, music producer and blogger.

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