LED there be light

Not only has this hand-blown bubble of glass from sunny California made it into the Guinness Book of Records (as the ‘longest burning light bulb’) but it has also been given its own website where you can see if it still works. And indeed over the years they have had to change the webcam times but the bulb keeps burning on. The carbon filament bulb was hung from the ceiling of the firehouse in 1901. It shone out with a light of 60 watts at the time, though today the antique only manages to put out around four – but it’s still enough to illuminate the fire engines at night. The proud firemen entrusted with its care have at regular intervals even held events to celebrate the uninterrupted glow. In 2001 it was the bulb’s 100th anniversary and in 2011 the 110th birthday party was held. Rather than wait to 2021, in 2015 it was decided to throw a bash for the millionth hour of the fire-fighters forgetting to turn the thing off. Rather surprisingly this record-br