An Enlightening Light Bulb
The average incandescent light lasts between 1,000 and 2,000 hours. That’s with today’s tech to back it. An LED lasts between 25,000 and 50,000 hours, which is pretty amazing, but there’s a bulb that looks immortal compared to those. A bulb from 1901 hangs in a Californian firehouse and has been lit for 989,000 hours. That’s almost 113 years, or almost as old as the older living lady. Check out its story below-
http://priceonomics.com/the-mysterious-case-of-the-113-year-old-light-bulb/#utm_sguid=139180,20958fd8-de98-61bc-ec08-5d97cd62a670