{"id":5620,"date":"2012-08-27T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-a-century-of-light-from-one-globe\/"},"modified":"2012-08-27T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T01:04:00","slug":"struth-a-century-of-light-from-one-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/08\/struth-a-century-of-light-from-one-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! A century of light from one globe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says one of the world’s more bizarre tourist attractions is the world’s longest-burning light bulb that’s been glowing for an amazing 111 years.<\/p>\n

The 4-watt bulb was donated as a night-light to Fire Station #6 in Livermore, Northern California in 1901 by its maker, Dennis Bernal who was a pioneer electricity provider and owned the Livermore Power and Light Company.<\/p>\n

It was switched off in 1976 for 22-minutes when Station #6 was moved 3km to a new location, but apart from being off briefly during two minor power failures has been glowing all those years.<\/p>\n

The Guinness Book of Records, Ripley’s Believe It Or Not and the General Electric Company all agree it is the world’s longest-burning electric light bulb, and put its longevity down to a perfect seal that maintains its vacuum and therefore prevents the filament from deteriorating, its low 4-watt voltage, and the fact it’s not being constantly turned on and off.<\/p>\n

Today it’s still used as a night-light and is protected by a surge protector as well as both a battery and diesel power generator back-up \u2013 and people travel thousands of kilometres just to take a picture of it.<\/p>\n

And Station #6 fire-fighters who treat it as a lucky omen while ever it’s glowing when they’re on duty, have strict instructions not to touch it \u2013 unless they’re planning on updating their resum\u00e9s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says one of the world’s more bizarre tourist attractions is the world’s longest-burning light bulb that’s been glowing for an amazing 111 years. The 4-watt bulb was donated as a night-light to Fire Station #6 in Livermore, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-5620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}