Light Bulb Still Burning After 107 Years

“This fragile thing that wasn't meant to last has outlived the company that made it, people who first screwed it in, people who have written about it and who have kept watch over it”

A 107-year-old light bulb in California has been deemed by Guinness World Records and Ripley's Believe It Or Not as the word's longest-ever burning bulb. via Z 106.7 Jackson

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Late 1960s the bulb was outside, next to a door in a wall with no windows.

Departing Junction Ave. junior high we stood nearby yet far enough away to be able to run away and get away, and lobbed rocks at that bulb inside its metal cage.

Holes in the cage big enough to allow our smallish rocks to enter but our aim was bad.

Kids still feared "authority" back then (well, most of us) so we did not get to close to the fire station.

Glad now we missed since we would have been branded "the bulb killers" for the rest of our lives.