The bulb in the fire department No. 6 in Livermore in the American state of California does not go out almost since 1901.
known as the “light of the century”, the light bulb is included in the Guinness Book of Records as “The most long burning light in the world.”
Thanks to the camera installed in the fire department, the light bulb can be observed through the Internet.
A manual icing lamp with carbon thread was made in Shelby (Ohio), Shelby Electric in the late 1890s.
For all 122 years, this light was turned off only twice, and this was not due to the lamp itself, but by human error or intervention.
In 1976, the light was turned off for some time in connection with the crossing of the fire department. On May 20, 2013, a break occurred, as the source of uninterrupted nutrition failed.
In 2008 and 2009, the scientist professor Deborah Katz determined that the threads of the glow inside the lamp are 8 times thicker than in modern bulbs, and that these threads may be made of carbon.
In an interview with Anadol, the deputy head of the fire department Tom Brameell, known as the “Keeper of Light” and watching the lamp for 50 years, said that the light bulb was presented with the fire service in 1901 by Dennis Bernal, the owner of the company Livermore Power and Water.
“In 1976, when moving to the current fire department, we first moved the light bulb and have been observing it since then. People believe that it has a power of 4 watts, but Shelby’s handmade lights are 60 watts. Most likely this is due to this a decrease in the level of electricity supplied to the lamp, ”said Brameell.
According to the pensioner, he has been watching the lamp for 50 years and communicates on this topic with research from around the world.
“I talked with researchers from Australia, India, Turkey, Germany and many other countries. I’ve been retired for 20 years, but I still share information about the light bulb,” Bramell noted.
