London, July 14 (IANS) One may expect a household electricity bulb to last over a decade. But a hundred years? Believe it or not, one of Britain’s oldest lightbulbs is still being in use after a century.
The 230-volt, 55-watt DC Osram bulb is believed to have been made in July 1912, just months after the Titanic disaster, The Sun reported.
According to owner Roger Dyball, it still lights his porch in Suffolk, a non-metropolitan county. “At this rate, it’ll burn for ever! We found it with its original fittings when we moved here in 1967 and it has never gone out.”
It was made at a factory in Wembley, north London.
The 74-year-old owner sent the bulb serial numbers to a company for working out its manufacturing date which gave him a special certificate.
Britain’s oldest working bulb was found at Margate, Kent, in 2008. Experts estimated it was made in 1895 – 15 years after Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb.
Modern bulbs last on an average 1,000 hours before conking out.
