another bulb story

[Bruce Appelbaum]

It is possible for an incandescent bulb to burn for that long -- it is generally
the shock to the filament at start-up that causes the burn-out.  

>http://cgi.cnn.com/TECH/9703/25/longest.lasting.bulb/
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>A 96-year-old light bulb: It's still going
> March 25, 1997
>Web posted at: 11:43 p.m. EST (0443 GMT)
>From Correspondent Don Knapp
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>LIVERMORE, California (CNN) -- It is no great surprise that the fire bell at

>the Livermore Fire Station, installed in 1876, still works.
>But, surprise! So does the fire station's nightlight, a turn-of-the-century

>light bulb that Chief Lynn Owens claims has been burning practically nonstop

>since 1901.
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>also: http://www.snopes.com/spoons/noose/lightbul.htm
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