ten
April 8, 2026 at 12:14:36 AM
We are here in remembrance of the Livermore Light Bulb. It was manufactured in the late 1890s in Shelby, Ohio, and installed in Livermore, California, in 1901. In 1976, it was briefly switched off when it was relocated to a fire station on East Avenue. In 2013, a mishap again cut its power supply, but it successfully switched back on, and remained on until being crushed by a 500 football on July 3rd, 17776. It was 15,875 years old.
The Livermore Bulb probably did not have a soul. It was largely glass and filament through which electricity ran. It did not know us, and it did not know its own royalty.
It was the oldest functioning electric being in the known universe. It was our dearest ancestor. Year over year, century over century, it continued to astonish us: it was, after all, a light bulb that stayed on for more than 15,000 years without burning out or breaking. It was a miracle, and yet, it did not occur to us that it could die.
Perhaps in a more fearsome age, an age of illness and warfare and cosmic debris, we would not have room in our hearts to care for such a little bulb. But we are living in an age without loss. This is a sorrow we have forgotten how to experience.
The bulb lived, to us, and life deserves to be immortal. It will live on in our memories, where it will perhaps find more happiness than it ever did hanging from a ceiling.
We love you and we will miss you.
Replied on: April 8, 2026 at 6:42:44 AM
.thank you ten
