Updated on
Summary California gears up to celebrate the 110-year of a light bulb which has been burning since 1901.
The bulb, which will be honoured on June 18, was first installed in a local fire station in 1901, the gift of a local businessman. Since then, with the exception of a brief period in 1903, a week or so in 1937 and some power outages between then and 1976, the light has been on.Nobody knows how its possible. It is a 60 watt bulb and its only turned on for about 4 watts but nobody knows why it keeps burning. Weve had scientists from all over the country to look at this light bulb, of course nobody has ever been able to touch this light bulb, said LynnOwens, a retired division chief with the Livermore Fire Department and chairman of the towns light bulb centennial committee.The hand blown globe, declared the oldest known working light bulb by the Guinness Book of World Records,
