We come across some funny old stories on the newswires sometimes, but one that caught our attention in the Telegraph today was the story of a light bulb that is still providing light after being use for 70 years.
The lightbulb can be found at Cowes home of Mo Richardson and apparently has been in use since she was first given it by her late husband’s father in 1938.
According to the article, the light bulb in question is an old Swan Edison filament bulb with hand blown glass and has provided light for approximately 600,000 hours in it’s lifetime.
They tell us that the average for standard light bulbs these days is about 750-1000 hours.
Blimey, they don’t make ’em like they used to eh? Read the article in full
Image: This is not the lightbulb mentioned above, but another filament lightbulb taken by Kelly McCarthy
