100-Year-Old Lightbulb Unearthed From Time Capsule Still Works
Modern lightbulbs may be getting slightly more environmentally conscious (or at least having unexpected things stuffed into them), but it’s...
Modern lightbulbs may be getting slightly more environmentally conscious (or at least having unexpected things stuffed into them), but it’s still equal parts impressive and depressing that a 100-year-old lightbulb discovered by GE (whose archives are pretty amazing) in a time capsule still works perfectly well when plugged into a circa-2012 socket. This one’s a tungsten filament bulb, which was slowly brought up to 60 volts (plugging it into a regular 120-volt socket would probably not have been good) and gave off a healthy, century-old glow. Somehow though, we bet people in 1912 would have expected 2012 to be lit by something like this, not a slightly brighter and rounder version of their own bulb. Video after the jump.
