{"id":7070,"date":"2010-01-14T17:15:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T22:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7070"},"modified":"2010-01-14T17:15:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T22:15:29","slug":"the-longest-burning-light-bulb-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-longest-burning-light-bulb-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The longest burning light bulb in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has been lit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centennialbulb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">for 109 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The improved incandescent lamp,       invented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centennialbulb.org\/chaillet.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Adolphe A. Chaillet<\/a>, was       made by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsweb.com\/%7Eohscogs\/shelbymuseum\/ShelbyMuseum3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Shelby       Electric Company<\/a>. It is a handblown bulb with carbon filament.       Approximate wattage-4 watts. Left burning continuously in firehouse       as a nightlight over the fire trucks. For some research test       results on a sister bulb at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centennialbulb.org\/annapolis-test.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Annapolis       follow this link<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.centennialbulb.org\/images\/ctbulb1.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centennialbulb.org\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The upper limit of the lifespan of one of these:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f9\/Energiesparlampe_01_retouched.jpg\/800px-Energiesparlampe_01_retouched.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"590\" height=\"497\" \/><\/p>\n<p>is 15,000 hours or, if left on, around 1.71 years; it would take 63 fluorescent bulbs to provide light for as long as the Shelby Bulb has \u2013 and <em>it <\/em>is still going.<\/p>\n<p>So the question is, over 100 years, does it take more energy to make and light one Shelby Bulb or make and light 63 fluorescent bulbs and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/garbage\/fluorescent.htm\" target=\"_blank\">safely dispose<\/a> of 62 of them?<\/p>\n<p>I suspect the answer is 63 fluorescent bulbs although, admittedly, at 4 watts, the Shelby Bulb would be a little dim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has been lit for 109 years. The improved incandescent lamp, invented by Adolphe A. Chaillet, was made by the Shelby Electric Company. It is a handblown bulb with carbon filament. Approximate wattage-4 watts. Left burning continuously in firehouse as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-longest-burning-light-bulb-in-history\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[2130],"class_list":["post-7070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}