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Lightbulb Technology: A bulb burning for the past 96 years.
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 5:29 pm
by aTOMiC
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6056940/?GT1=5100
I'd like to know why I can't buy a light bulb that lasts 2 months let alone 96 years. What am I missing? Has the lore to long lived lightbulbs been lost?
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:29 pm
by matrixman
96 straight years?!
I agree, the lore for long-lived bulbs must have been lost. The knowledge may even have been included in Kevin's Wards, but, alas, they are forever beyond our reach.
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:06 pm
by I'm Murrin
Part of it will be the fact it never gets turned on and off - the most damage to a filament is done when you first turn it on. That's why bulbs tend to go right as you flick the switch.
Re: Lightbulb Technology: A bulb burning for the past 96 yea
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:57 pm
by Revan
TOM C wrote:www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6056940/?GT1=5100
I'd like to know why I can't buy a light bulb that lasts 2 months let alone 96 years. What am I missing? Has the lore to long lived lightbulbs been lost?
I reckon they put it in. left the house for 95 years and 364 days, then came back.
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:47 am
by ZefaLefeLaH
True Murrin, also the filiments were of a much larger width back then. The question begs to be asked, "Why have thin ones now?"
Well, if it heats up too much, it breaks. Imagine having a child with a lamp under a blanket for a little while.
Now we have better technology, but those lights cost too much money for us commoners to buy.
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 6:21 am
by Loredoctor
Matrixman wrote: 96 straight years?!
I agree, the lore for long-lived bulbs must have been lost. The knowledge may even have been included in Kevin's Wards, but, alas, they are forever beyond our reach.
