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When The Holidays Went Electric - 1910 Mini Carbon Bulb
🕑 Added 2020-12-14 00:34:42 +0000 UTCAnother precious artifact from our electrical past - this time it's our Electrical Holiday past! Here I show off a beautiful hand made carbon filament bulb from 1910 that was made for holiday decorations instead of those old-fangled candles your parents used to use. Enjoy!
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Circuitmike
Interesting light bulb, and I really loved the music in this one!
Fran Blanche
No pedals were used in the making of this intro.
Is that a Frantone pedal intro/outro?
I kinda like the reflections, makes it natural. Would be reflection looking at it with the ye anyway too
What a cheerful intro. Happy festive days to you and the other Patreons
Fran Blanche
Probably not, likely extruded cellulose.
Phil in the kitchen
What material were the Japanese using back then to be 'carbonized' ...bamboo?
Matt Wietlispach
Well, Christmas wasn't Christmas back in the mid 70s until neighbors would bring me their strings of series-wired little bulb strings that failed because just one bulb went out. Finding the bulb wasn't hard, but the really cheap green insulation on the strings of bulbs was prone to crack when exposed to the frigid Chicago winters. I think it was the only time my neighbors stopped questioning why I was salvaging the defective vacuum tube-laden radios and TVs they threw out. Huh, that skinny kid finally had a function! Hah! And I'll bet those cheap series-wired Christmas tree lights were made in Japan too!!!
John McCormick
These likely seemed a lot brighter back in the day when everything wasn't lit up with electric lights.
William Alsing
When did they start making color Christmas bulbs?
BobC
Thank goodness the "warm Holiday glow" comes from a bulb! I was afraid it was some mushy emotional stuff. Or booze, which may work best during 2020.
HarveyB
Very cool! I love your collection of vintage tech! A note on brightness of incandescent bulbs though: the light output vs. voltage is approximately a CUBE relationship, so doubling the voltage will give 8 times as much light...
well, now we know when the war on Christmas was launched...!!!.....lol
Geoffrey Waldo
Happy happy happy! Thanks Fran. Tempting to have it burn for holiday live stream. It then don’t want to shorten lifetime of the bulb. I liked the lava lamp too!
Happy Holidays, Fran!! Happy New Year too!!
