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This lightbulb has burnt on for over 100 years
Thursday July 19, 2012 08:59:20 AM,
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London: One may expect a household electricity bulb
to last over a decade. But a hundred years? Believe it or not, one
of Britain's oldest lightbulbs is still being in use after a
century.
The 230-volt, 55-watt DC Osram bulb is believed to have been made
in July 1912, just months after the Titanic disaster, The Sun
reported.
According to owner Roger Dyball, it still lights his porch in
Suffolk, a non-metropolitan county. "At this rate, it'll burn for
ever! We found it with its original fittings when we moved here in
1967 and it has never gone out."
It was made at a factory in Wembley, north London.
The 74-year-old owner sent the bulb serial numbers to a company
for working out its manufacturing date which gave him a special
certificate.
Britain's oldest working bulb was found at Margate, Kent, in 2008.
Experts estimated it was made in 1895 - 15 years after Thomas
Edison invented the lightbulb.
Modern bulbs last on an average 1,000 hours before conking out.
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