This light bulb, located in a firehouse in Livermore, California, has been running almost continuously for 106 years. Wikipedia also keeps track of the second, third, fourth, and fifth longest burning bulbs. Naturally, the Centennial Bulb has its own web site.  (via kircher society)

This reminds me of the section in Gravity’s Rainbow concerning a long-running conspiracy by lightbulbs to eventually overthrow their human oppressors by synchronic flickering to induce epilepsy, captained by Byron the Immortal Bulb.