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Wednesday 20 February 2013

Word's oldest light bulb produces light since 1901.





Holding Guinness World Record for the longest shining light bulb ever made. It's been shinning for 112 years. It's placed in local fire station in Livermore, California, USA.

Lynn Owens, who heads the light bulb's centennial committee, told Time.com: "Nobody knows how it's possible. It is a 60-watt bulb and it's only turned on for about four watts, but nobody knows why it keeps burning."

The bulb protector Steve Bunn said the secret is in the way it was engineered. He also claimed it's the proof that things made in the past were more durable than things made today.

Did you notice that products are made less durable in order to provide more profit for the companies making them?

Source: http://goo.gl/WcuwI
Photo credit: Caters, News agency

- Roman

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