Lightbulb burns for 100+ years shocka!!!

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# Installed: First installed at the fire department hose cart house in 1901. Then moved to fire station at First and McLeod, then to its present site in 1976 at the fire station, 4550 East Ave., Livermore, California
# Proof of Longevity: From local newspaper records; also GE engineers researched it. Was donated to the Fire Department in 1901 by Dennis Bernal who owned the Livermore Power and Light Co.

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Thursday, 26 August 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

this made "news of the weird" some time ago. unlike most "news of the weird" items which just make you despair for the world and all who reside in it, this story is sort of awesome.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 26 August 2004 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)

They're going to break him, you just watch!

― Byron the Lightbulb (Leee), Thursday, 26 August 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

http://literature.sdsu.edu/professors/w_nericcio/posthornchalk.jpg

― @@@, Thursday, 26 August 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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