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For you Cheddar Cheese lovers...

Thanks, I needed that! I needed a diversion from the excitment of watching my paint drying, and this was PERFECT!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
It is so exciting isn't it? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
Perhaps watching Bleu Cheese age? (It takes longer!!)
 
Steve said:
Marginally more interesting than a game of baseball.......... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

Uh-oh! Now you've done it!
 
And faster than a game of Cricket!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/whistle.gif
 
Even more exciting is the World's Oldest Burning Light Bulb

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Age: 106 years and counting (as of 2007)

Installed: First installed at the fire department hose cart house on L Street in 1901. Shortly after it moved to the main firehouse on Second. In 1903 it was moved to the new Station 1 on First and McLeod, and survived the renovation of the Firehouse in 1937, when it was off for about a week. During it's first 75 years it was connected directly to the 110 Volt power line, and not to the back-up generator for fear of a power surge. In 1976 it was moved with a full police and fire truck escort, under the watch of Captain Kirby Slate, to its present site in 1976 at Fire Station 6, 4550 East Ave., Livermore, California. It was then hooked to a seperate reduced power source, with no interuptions since.

Proof of Longevity: From local newspaper records; also GE engineers researched it. Was donated to the Fire Department in 1901 by Dennis Bernal who owned the Livermore Power and Light Co.

Vital Statistics: Made by the Shelby Electric Company, a handblown bulb with carbon filament. Approximate wattage-4 watts. Left burning continuously in firehouse as a nightlight over the fire trucks.

Recognition: Declared the oldest known working lightbulb by Guinness Book of World Records. Ripley's Believe-It-or-Not in 1972 researched it and declared it the oldest. Charles Kurault of the TV program "On the Road with Charles Kurault" visited the bulb in the 1970s and included it in his book as well.
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That's funny, /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/confused.gif if you visit T. A. Edison's home in Ft. Meyers, Fl. They claim to have the oldest bulb still working in their museum there!! It is obviously and early example by the inventor of the product!!

At least watching the light bulb, something COULD happen, eventually it will burn out I would think!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
There is a difference between the oldest "working" lightbulb and the oldest "burning" lightbulb.
 
Thank you James, it would take a lawguy to make the distinction to me!hehehe!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/blush.gif
 
JamesWilson said:
Even more exciting is the World's Oldest Burning Light Bulb

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Age: 106 years and counting (as of 2007)

It was then hooked to a seperate reduced power source, with no interuptions since.
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Fun facts to know and tell...

If you take a lightbulb designed for 120VAC, and power it
at 100VAC, you can triple the life expectancy of the bulb,
and if you power it at 75VAC, you'll get 10 times the life
expectancy...

SteveL
 
That light bulb link is great, I think watching the paint dry might even be more exciting /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
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