The lightbulb that's burned for 120 years draws four watts

The Phoebus cartel capped bulbs at 1,000 hours in 1925. The 120-year-old Livermore bulb draws just 4 watts.

Phoebus cartel — Rjaerial / CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

A lightbulb in a Livermore, California fire station has burned for more than 120 years, past a million hours, and it is the stock proof that manufacturers once colluded to make bulbs burn out. It is also barely lit: the nominally 60-watt lamp draws four watts, according to electronics blogger M…