And nowadays we are seeing a technology cartel, making your phone obsolete by forced updates or by just not supporting your model anymore, no matter how well you took care of it.

@nacoran

3 жыл бұрын

That's a little different. The lightbulb was basically a lightbulb for 100 years. Phone technology actually is changing. They've changed what frequencies they operate on as the government shuffled around what frequencies got what to make phones that get better reception. The problem is making them backwards compatible actually requires putting parts into it that you don't need, therefore making them more expensive to make. There are, of course, times when you don't need a new part and it's just a matter of updating drivers. I've got a printer that doesn't work because Windows 10 doesn't play with it's drivers. Yes, they would have to write a new driver for it and there is a cost to that, but once the driver is created there is no real cost to making it backwards compatible since the jacks still connect. If a phone is operating on 3G or 4G there is a cost to the carriers to keep those networks running so it's in their interest to move to 5G, which will give their customers faster service. There may be a point when a phone just doesn't have enough computing power to run a new operating system. In those situations as long as it otherwise has the hardware they should let it keep working with the network unless there is a security issue with it.

@57thorns

3 жыл бұрын

@@nacoran Well, the 3G and 4G transmitters will still be there, especially in rural areas, for a very long time. It is not cost effective for the operators to replace them.

@krisryan9181

3 жыл бұрын

@@57thorns Not true for some countries. 3G is being switched off in a couple of years by the largest telco here in Australia.

@6Shroomie9

3 жыл бұрын

Only if you're stupid/gullible enough to buy from Apple.

@garethbaus5471

3 жыл бұрын

@S. G. my phone doesn't have that much memory but it also has a lot of mystery memory that never seems to be available.

We know how to make really long lasting incandescent light bulbs like the Livermore bulb. Don't switch them off, and run them really really dim. Problem is this isn't the type of light bulb people want. As for LEDs, I buy Philips and OSRAM light bulbs and almost all exceed the 15,000 hour life span. Just keep them well ventilated. I did have one OSRAM LED light die after 'just' ~7000 hours. I emailed the company and asked about their satisfaction guarantee. They told me to exchange the bulb for a new one at the original store (with receipt), and that's what I did. Tip: Write the installation date with marker on the base of your LEDs. Really handy to know roughly how long they lasted.

@raymondj8768

3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant information brother !!!!!

@OtakuUnitedStudio

3 жыл бұрын

I have one LED light that I put in my old apartment. I lived there for six years and put it in about 2 years in. I bet the people living there still have it.

@mwindanji6714

3 жыл бұрын

My brain melted at 7k hours and original receipt

@119beaker

3 жыл бұрын

@@mwindanji6714 7k hours is about 3 or 4 years of use and still has the receipt? I wouldn't have one after 3 or 4 days.

@DwFritz23

Ай бұрын

Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most!

Fun fact: in polish language, "osram" means literally "I will shit upon" something. Curiously, Osram didn't change the name of their bulbs for polish market.

@Aconitum_napellus

3 жыл бұрын

I'm gonna have to try that the next Pole I meet.

@xenorac

3 жыл бұрын

That did not work with Google Translate :(

@vealck

3 жыл бұрын

@@xenorac Yeah, just checked, it shows some bollocks. However, I am not kidding: pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/osra%C4%87

@kristinfrostlazerbeams

3 жыл бұрын

"I will shit upon other bulb companies." 😂

@philipjohnson3225

3 жыл бұрын

Shows how much of a shit they give

Screw "self-cleaning" printers. More like "self-emptying" printers. When I first got one it was self-cleaning more often than I was printing and I was running out of ink after just a few print jobs. There was no way to change or disable the cleaning cycle, either, so I had to resort to unplugging it whenever it wasn't in use. I've never had a printer fail on me and need replacement but those things are certainly designed to guzzle ink for no reason at all.

@flagmichael

3 жыл бұрын

Just on a tangent, I am amazed at my HP OfficeJet 8600 I bought on sale so many years ago. For just over $100 I have auto-duplex, flawless print quality after all these years, and no trouble at all for several times the life of any other printer I have had. My only regret is when this one dies I will have to roll the dice again. The worst experience: a HP500 monochrome inkjet printer around Y2K. I went to the store to buy another model and I was told it was out of production but HP had this brand new 500! I bought it and went back for replacement ink cartridges a few months later... the ink cartridges were not available because the printer was already out of production!

"vacuum filled bulbs" - wait, what?

@tracishea5053

3 жыл бұрын

That's a lovely oxymoron.

@dogwalker666

3 жыл бұрын

Shh dont tell it's a secret process vacuume gas that is captured by satellites and is then filtered and used to fill bulbs.

@xenorac

3 жыл бұрын

I thought that too!

@FeathPymArt

3 жыл бұрын

Then he said the vacuum bulbs LEAKED. My brain froze for a few seconds.

@dogwalker666

3 жыл бұрын

@@FeathPymArt there is nothing worse than a vacuum leaking all over the floor.

"The only thing Edison didn't patent-jack was patent-jacking." Sherlock Holmes

@alexv3357

3 жыл бұрын

He would have if he could have

@dogwalker666

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexv3357 indeed

@dogwalker666

3 жыл бұрын

GhostFire Electronics oh really next you will tell us miss Marple was made up too.

@jessehudgins6066

3 жыл бұрын

@@GhostFireElectronics Sherlock Holmes was an English detective from the early 1900s you idiot.

@garethbaus5471

3 жыл бұрын

@@jessehudgins6066 who just so happened to be fictional, not that it would stop him.

Built to fail: All Apple products

@TheOneGuy1111

3 жыл бұрын

I looked up "planned obsolescence" on Wikipedia, and it has a list of various ways it can be done. It's amazing just how many of them Apple makes use of.

@Nononom12

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheOneGuy1111 yep their software updates are designed to slow down older models

@Craftlngo

3 жыл бұрын

just look up for modern car engines like the Ford Ecoboost or the GM MGE Engine. Down sizing and turbo charger decrease the lifetime of the engine. Gearboxes with "lifetime" Oil filling have an estimated reach of 100,000 miles.

@ImSumGuy

3 жыл бұрын

@@Nononom12So why is it then that iOS 13 runs better than ios12 and iOS 11 on a 5 year old iPhone SE? I've fixed literally thousands of phones and apple products are built to last a lot better than modlst phones out there. They have issues but so does literally every other phone. When talking about "built to fail" and "planned obsolescence" it's funny how Apple gets all this flack when every other company makes $200-$300 Android phones meant to fail within a year and keep you upgrading. LG and Samsung are some of the worst offenders, shitting on apple just makes you look like a fanboy. Btw I don't use apple products even, I just find your comment and the like fucking bullshit and you should know it

@Nononom12

3 жыл бұрын

@@ImSumGuy man the internet where people can claim whatever they want Well I worked for years fixing computers in college. I saw way more Macs than windows. As for phones, I quit on iPhone 4 and had the first iPhone (edge)

So wait, why don’t any companies these days make the bulbs from back then that last forever??? Seems like it would be a brilliant business model for a new small company to start selling the lightbulbs with huge longevity and marketing them against the planned obsolescence bulbs

@flagmichael

3 жыл бұрын

I'm already unhappy that the $40 LED flood lamps I bought less than 10 years ago still work as badly as they did when new. They were state of the art then, but junk now. No more junk for me, please.

@davidr1050

Жыл бұрын

Running a bulb on a dimmer where you slowly bring up the brightness and slowly fade it out will increase it's life.. Same with running lets say a 100 watt bulb at only 80%.. Bulbs that seem to last the longest are the oversize ones that have a lot of space between the filament and the glass. (Globe type).

@schwarzerritter5724

Жыл бұрын

Because you would rather buy the cheaper bulbs.

@KarldorisLambley

10 ай бұрын

because bulbs that last long are bad. bad for consumer, bad for manufacturer, bad for power companies. simply to make a bulb last you have to under-drive it. if you under-drive a bulb you use half the power, but and this is the bit everyone forgets, for a quarter of the light. so it is very inefficient and expensive to run. and bulbs cost pennies. lots of power companies used to just give them away fro free, as they're so cheap.

@ImRezaF

4 ай бұрын

People would go out of job if a product last forever. Sure, the demand in the early period will skyrocket because your product is so good but as time moves forward there wouldn't be any demand. And if there's no demand, there's no sale. No sale mean no profit. No profit mean companies will layoff workers to cut expenses. A product that last forever has grave consequence.

"They don't make them like the used to...."

@senorvillarruel8129

2 жыл бұрын

And if they do its like twice the price

It is probably worth mentioning that the Centennial Light is only giving off 4 watts, but was designed for 30 or 60 watts(different sources). It is very dim, like a nightlight or something. Any modern lightbulb would last that long if it was only giving off 4 watts. I would take a modern lightbulb over one like that any day.

@Mathis218337

3 жыл бұрын

Most LEDs only utilize 4 watts. You’re probably thinking of lumens.

@jort93z

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mathis218337 No, I am thinking of watts. It does only use 4 watts. Not sure about the lumen output, it was never moved for the fear of destroying it, so you can't measure lumen.

@shadowdance4666

3 жыл бұрын

I have some early LED bulbs that I just keep on constantly except for temporary power outages and they are still going strong after 10 plus years. The new ones last only 1 or 2

@TheScarvig

3 жыл бұрын

another factor for the enourmous lifespan of the bulb is most likely that it never gets switched on an off... the heating and the cooling of the filament are what puts the most strain on the filament and thus dictate the estimated lifetime. without switching any modern lightbulb could probably work that long, especially when the actual wattage is this low

@Mathis218337

3 жыл бұрын

jort93z correct it uses 4 watts. You said “gives off”. It gives off lumens, not watts.

Thomas Edison was the Original Steve Joabs, stealing other technologies and claiming it was "ME"

@mrflamewars

3 жыл бұрын

Steve Joabs? Stebe Jerbs. Sturb Jurbs.

@sleepup7931

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrflamewars it's to prevent anyone from suing and sometime to avoid A.I detection and deletion ...

@mrflamewars

3 жыл бұрын

@@sleepup7931 is teh stebe

@Ayra_Is_Cool_lol

2 жыл бұрын

ermahgerd sterve jerbs

The most frustrating thing I had ever learned, planned obsolescence...

@HDXFH

Жыл бұрын

And most environmentally destructive

@1971dave

19 күн бұрын

One in every seven condoms don't work

As far as the printers go, there have been times when buying a new printer was cheaper than replacing the ink in one so I would just do that rather than buy ink.

planned obsolescence is also a problem for nylon tights. The first produced versions where very durable. By leaving out one stabilising ingredient tights ripped much faster and had to get replaced.

I want to replace all the lamps in my house with lite brites

@Dr.RichardBanks

3 жыл бұрын

I want you to do this also. 🥰

@apeiceofgarbage9848

3 жыл бұрын

Bit of a weird reply man

@OtakuUnitedStudio

3 жыл бұрын

Go for it, there's little reason not to.

@Dr.RichardBanks

3 жыл бұрын

@@apeiceofgarbage9848 you're a wheird reply man

@apeiceofgarbage9848

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dr.RichardBanks 😂👏👏great comeback man,, someone give this guy a crown

One of the possible inventors of the light bulb that was not mentioned in this video is Sir Hiram Maxim. He claimed that he had invented the lightbulb first but due to the fact that Edison knew more about patent law, Edison got all the credit. I know about him because he is a great, great (not sure how many greats) grandfather to my kids. Kinda handy to have a person in the family that reports can be written about for school.

I've learned new term today - planned obsolescence. One of the best examples would be ink cartriges for printers.

A: “Those LED bulbs are flickering. I told you they were no good! They said 10 years!” B: “ Uncle, you put those in in 2007”

@uss_04

3 жыл бұрын

Angel Symmetrika I’ve started writing down somewhere on the Lämp or base when the bulb was put in. Just interesting to see how long it would last

@johnsee9696

3 жыл бұрын

My LED bulbs have lasted going on 7 years now. I put them in when I moved into my current place.

@robertgaines-tulsa

3 жыл бұрын

@Angel Symmetrika The CFLs I bought back in 1998 lasted from from one week to one year. The odd thing about the Great Value light bulbs is that they are still working close to 10 years already. All brand name light bulbs burn out in two years.

@ivanv754

3 жыл бұрын

Had 1st gen Panasonic CFLs. Some lasted 12 years.

@ljbrookens

3 жыл бұрын

I mark the date on bulbs when replacing them. They almost never go the advertised duration. Furious over LED failures, I took them apart: crappy electrical connections failed. Unfortunately, you have to destroy the housing to fix the connections.

I don't mind replacing the not-that-old printer. That's actually fairly cheap. It's continuously buying the new ink cartridges that sucks up the cash.

@markgriz

3 жыл бұрын

Unless you need color, why even bother with inkjet printers? Laser printers are fairly cheap, toner is far cheaper than ink, and it never dries up or clogs. Even color laser printers are cheaper compared to inkjet when you factor in the cost of ink

@cougarhunter33

3 жыл бұрын

My father buys new printers rather than replace the ink carts. When the printer is under $50, no sense in spending $75 on a new set of carts. So he'll go out and buy 4 of them at a time and keep them in a closet. Those printers will last 3-4 years and he'll go do it again.

@flagmichael

3 жыл бұрын

@@cougarhunter33 The cartridges that come with the printers have a much smaller amount of ink (typically a third) of new ones. They show full on the display but have a smaller reservoir.

@cougarhunter33

3 жыл бұрын

@@flagmichael I've given up trying talk any sense into him about just getting a laser printer.

I remember the “Rush” to buy those 100W/60W incandescents when they were slated to be phased out. Poor warm up times for CFLs, expensive LEDs and people distrustful of the “Obama Ban” just cleared the shelves. Up till a few years ago you might find someone who has an attic full of them, convinced they can sell them for 4 times their worth

@htpchtpc4140

3 жыл бұрын

@Fleabit peanut monkey blame it on Obama, right??

@ChaoticNeutralMatt

11 ай бұрын

Pretty normal reaction. If not the smartest.

@johnettipio

7 ай бұрын

here we are in '23, and getting incandescent bulbs is not easy

What showed up over cartoon characters' heads whenever they got an idea before lightbulbs were invented?

@claudineschultz8935

3 жыл бұрын

To Nathan: a comic cloud with a question mark

At least one company made bulbs to last at a price. In 1996 I bought some "7 Year bulbs" from a charity drive. At the time they costed $27 for a 4 pack. In 2020 these incandescent bulbs still are in use. Mostly I've switched to LED for the power reduction, but my old "7 year bulbs" just keep on going.

@KarldorisLambley

10 ай бұрын

Yes they keep going, using loads more power for a far dimmer light. long life bulbs are frankly idiotic unless they are in a very hard to reach place.

@bradlevantis913

2 ай бұрын

I used to work for a lightbulb manufacturer (actually Osram Sylvania). The years of life are based on 3 hours a day. So that’s about 7500 hours. They probably have a thicker filimint and are designed for 130!or even 140 volt circuits. By running them on 120 the life expectancy goes way up. And finally the hours are calculated by taking a lot of 100 bulbs and running them until 51 burn out. That’s the stated life. (We did up the voltage to speed the time up for testing purposes)

I like the new LED ones, started changing my incandescent out 4 years ago, haven't changed a bulb since.

@tncorgi92

3 жыл бұрын

Don't buy LED bulbs from Walmart, they are crap. They don't last as long as others, in fact I've had two dead right out of the package.

@KalRandom

3 жыл бұрын

@@tncorgi92 actually I use the cheap ones from Wally World. Started changing them out 4 ish years ago, and not changed one since. Not propping up Wally, as I just don't like them. Hate walking 2 football field for 3 items, bad hips and back. We just don't leave them on all the time, maybe that matters. You may have gotten a bad pack.

@djsiddiki3430

Жыл бұрын

@@tncorgi92 Why do you guys think everybody buys everything from walmart?

This is why packaged goods have an expiration date that almost always has nothing to do with the product actually going bad by the indicated date.

@flagmichael

3 жыл бұрын

Something like that. Expiration dates for things that essentially last as long as we do limit the manufacturer's liability exposure.

When nan the ages years later my Grandad died in 2014. I switched of their chest freezer for the last time. Aside from 1 house move and the odd power cut it ran continually from 1973-2014. My last fridge freezer 9 years

This feels weird as someone who works for a small lighting company. Our fittings last around 25k-50k hours and drivers lasting 50k-75k hours Dependent on location and climate. We sell only LED fittings btw. And I mean we barely have to replace fittings from older jobs 3-5 years.

My Epson inkjet printer was the most trouble free printer I owned until one day the automatic software update told the printer that my stock of Epson ink cartridges where out of date and no longer recognizable. :(

@zwerko

3 жыл бұрын

Well, one has to be careful when using out-of-date ink, who knows what sort of calamities might happen if you try to print using it? It's safer for everybody to just disable it, you know, just in case...

@acamera367

3 жыл бұрын

Why did printers need to have a update system to them again? It seems kind of silly

@yunofun

2 жыл бұрын

Had this with a Brother printer I recently purchased. Only worse, the update was automatic and on first use, said the ink cartridges were out of date... The damned cartridges came with the printer that I had just bought.

@bladerj

2 жыл бұрын

@@acamera367 because they dont make money on the printers, but on the inks, its the same for video games, sony and ms lose money on the hardware, they make it up on the fee they get from game sales

Value engineers = modern planned obsolescence. Good episode in the making.

@flagmichael

3 жыл бұрын

It would be interesting. We tend to misunderstand the enormous value design life engineering has for our products. When I am 80 I would not be particularly interested in an appliance that was designed to last for 50 years and cost twice as much as one that might only last 15 years. I am glad I am not trying to watch a top of the line 21 inch color TV made in 1975. Our cell phones are made to last about three years because they are significantly limited in ways we did not know could exist when we bought it. I like replacing my toothbrush about the time it wears out, if only for hygiene reasons. I am at a stage where I no longer fit clothes I bought a year or two before... how long would I want those to last?

This is the kind of manipulation of the market that keeps it from growing and evolving. Its underlying assumption is that what’s best for the manufacturer is what’s best for the market. But the consumer is what drives the market.

Simon, this reminded me to make a suggestion for either this channel or Business Blaze... about the early days of electrification and the squabbles and lawsuits between Edison and Westinghouse, known then as The Current Wars. Nikola Tesla was also involved. Just seems like a fascinating topic.

I have some early LED bulbs that I just keep on constantly except for temporary power outages and they are still going strong after 10 plus years. The new ones last only 1 or 2

@dogwalker666

3 жыл бұрын

Because they are made of chinesium.

@mrflamewars

3 жыл бұрын

@@dogwalker666 I wonder if it's possible to make a light bulb out of Nintendium. Would it last a thousand years?

@TheMightyZwom

3 жыл бұрын

The reason is: If you use LEDs above their rated current they get brighter. But their life time will decrease dramatically. This is a trick many LED manufacturers seem to use: Customers want a "good" light and a cheap price. So they use high quality LEDs, but since they are expensive they’ll use only a few and overload them to get enough light out of the LED bulb. For the customer this means a cheap LED bulb with a “good” light (both in terms of color and brightness) - but also with a short live span. Instead of lasting up to 100,000 hours it will probably last a few 1,000 hours. The question is now: Are they evil? They are giving the customer what they want. And the customer who is complaining about the bulbs short live time is also the same customer who refuses to pay double the price for another product that will last ten times as long… tl;dr: It is more complicated than “all companies are evil” imho...

@dogwalker666

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheMightyZwom your correct I have LEDs from the 1980's that are still working late are being run at 30mA, most LED'S lamps are over driven but in my experience the failures are 90% the crap power supplies, as you say they are made to a price and the Chinese ones cost pennies so you can't expect them to last.

@dogwalker666

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrflamewars it is possible to make light bulbs that would last that long they would be expensive but the company making them would go bust.

All that said, I think the main reason the centennial bulb is still working is that it rarely gets switched on and off. Switching a light bulb on and off will put far more strain on it then just keeping it on.

@flagmichael

3 жыл бұрын

Thermal cycling is not kind to metal that has been incandescent for so long.

I bought some feit electric brand bulbs from a Walgreens once. Once. I learned never to do that again very quickly. Some of them burned out in less than one hour.

Thanks Simon for another enlightening video!

Simon, I live in livermore... thanks for the love for our little old bulb! Now how about a story about our waste treatment plant with Whales painted on it!

Thank you so much for this video. It touches on many things that have bothered me for years.

I used to live in a very old building that, likewise, had one of the very first lightbulbs. This bulb, too, had been used all the way into the 21st century, without ever burning out. In the form of an incandescent bulb, it is _very easy_ to craft an incandescent bulb that will _never_ burn out; you simply use TWO filaments, and wind the two filaments _around each other_ , so as to form what is commonly referred to as a TWISTED PAIR. This arrangement CANCELS OUT the overall Electromagnetic Field of the _overall_ filament. In a NORMAL incandescent bulb, it is the *initial* Electromagnetic Field that eventually TORQUES the filament, and CRACKS it, thereby _destroying_ the functional utility of the bulb. This *initial* Electromagnetic Field "shows up" on the moment when your _initially_ *apply power* _to_ the Lightbulb.

Makes me wanna try and make my own breakable stuff. Hate how scammy the worlds gotten.

i always heard that bulbs like that didn't burn out as fast because they don't experience the stress caused by heating and cooling caused by being turned on and off. but hearing that it might be caused by greedy business men doesn't surprise me at all at this point

This reminds me of electronics today

Yeah. I went through three printers in university. If I were a professor today, I'd just get the students to send academic papers to me via email.

@dannydaw59

3 жыл бұрын

Were they inkjet printers of yesteryear that you used once every 6 weeks? Thats how they get you. They calculate the most likely time between uses and pick the ink that dries up just short of that.

@amb163

3 жыл бұрын

@@dannydaw59 Nah. Mine literally BROKE. Cheaply made.

@jonnunn4196

3 жыл бұрын

In College, I just used their printers in the computer lab whenever I needed to print anything. Which wasn't that often since most of my professors didn't bother collecting assigned homework - they knew if you did it or not when they gave the finals.

If you're old enough to remember the companies who employed handicapped people to sell light bulbs over the phone and guaranteed them for 5 years, this partly explains their ability to make that guarantee -- their bulbs were a little better.

@laser31415

3 жыл бұрын

I just posted about this! I've got their bulbs. They stood behind that guarantee too. Due to an electrical storm I had 1 die. They sent me a new one, I didn't' even have to pay shipping. 24 years later those bulbs are still in use.

@eggsngritstn

3 жыл бұрын

@@laser31415 Wow. Great testamonial. I remember my mom getting a box of bulbs from one of those companies in 1977 and wondering what could be in a box that was so lightweight. Knowing my mom she got them to support the handicapped person on the phone not caring if the bulbs lasted or not.

So many bright ideas in this video.

@meetaverma8372

3 жыл бұрын

Get out

So, products are made to have a relatively short life-span to ensure consumers always came back for more. So it's the same with phones TVs fridges and pretty much all forms of technology/products, a limit is enforced on human innovation because some people want to make more money, disgusting. EDIT: 4:10 Oh so that's what it's called.

@dimitriosmakropoulos8641

3 жыл бұрын

The last phones they made which could last forever were the ones made by Western Electric which Bell leased to customers who also paid for in-home telephone service. Of course, they wanted THEM to last forever because THEY owned the phones, the customer couldn't own one, the customer could only lease them and pay a fee every month for their receiver.

@THExRISER

3 жыл бұрын

​@@dimitriosmakropoulos8641 Idk phones like the Nokia 3310 phones are pretty good too, like you couldn't break them even if you tried, I think every corporation simply realized at some point that making long lasting products isn't profitable in the long run.

@TheMightyZwom

3 жыл бұрын

But the thing is: If they did make stuff last longer it would probably also be more expensive. Nobody would buy those products because "Oh, look. The other TV/fridge/phone/light is much cheaper". Yes, they are doing it to make more money and essentially exploit the customer. But they can only get away with that, because *we allow them to*. That is something we shouldn’t forget when it comes to planned obsolescence...

@THExRISER

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheMightyZwom When you say more expensive do you mean the production cost or the price of the product? Because if you mean production cost, we know that's not the case, at least for many of the products we buy to day, the printer example Simon gave is proof of this, a better printer is not one that's harder to make, it's one that doesn't have that stupid cleaning mechanism they deliberately included. And if you mean the price of the product, then honestly it's totally worth that price, I would rather buy an expensive printer that lasts for 20 years rather than having to buy a new one every couple of years.

@BTheBlindRef

3 жыл бұрын

@@THExRISER The printer thing should be illegal. It's one thing to make a product cheaper that won't last as long, it's another thing to sabotage a product in the way described. That being said, you say you would pay a lot more for a product that lasts 20 years rather than less for one that expires. However, the economics over history suggest this is simply NOT TRUE for the VAST majority of consumers. If it was, that is exactly what the businesses would do. The fact is, there are printers you could buy today that would last a long time and are reparable. They are really expensive and high end. The kind that corporations that do heavy printing buy. They cost thousands of dollars. Do you have one? Why not? I thought you were willing to pay a bunch for quality?

Edison never invented that filament. He underpaid destitute engineers and inventors in a recession. One of those engineers invented the filament.Edison took credit.

@oliviagreen7423

3 жыл бұрын

Then there was that whole thing with Louis Le Prince... Edison was crooked af

@julianshepherd2038

3 жыл бұрын

God Bless America

@oliviagreen7423

3 жыл бұрын

@@julianshepherd2038 And by "god", we mean MONEY

@uss_04

3 жыл бұрын

Time to utter that one triggering phrase. “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?” It’s enough to drive someone to become a supervillain in Gotham.

@smarte1111

3 жыл бұрын

That's the american dream! Exploit others to get rich.

If every lightbulb lasted a century by the time anyone needed a replacement no one would still have the equipment to make them.

*Today I Found Out :* How many therapists it takes to change a light bulb 🤔 None........ The light bulb has to want to change 😏💡 *The More You Know🌈🌟©* *"NUFF SAID"™*

@flagmichael

3 жыл бұрын

How many Teamsters does it take to screw in a light bulb? Twelve - you got a problem with that?

A wonderfully illuminating video. Really shines a light on things.

What you're really talking about Simon is the branch of Mechanical Engineering known as Reliability Engineering. It's all about creating planned obsolescence. A reliability engineer can create things to fail at +/- 5% of a given life. So, in the case of the light bulbs, an reliability engineer would plan for 1050 hours of life such that the light bulb would last a minimum of 1000 hours and a maximum of 1100 hours.

Simon on the brain food podcast: isn't it cheating to turn it off? That's like saying yeah I've been awake for xxx years except when I'm asleep Simon here: lemme tell you about this dope ass light bulb

This action effectively killed brand loyalty.

Whenever I hear the terms "cartel" or "syndicate" I assume they're doing something nefarious.

@stonehaven2289

2 жыл бұрын

Because they usually are up to no-good, extortion, fraud, murder etc..

Simon we all know you've never seen office space.

Glad you shed some light on the marketing strategy of the whole world!

planned obsolescence… sounds like something worthy of a Blaze! allegedly.

8:15 I have a LaserJet 4300 that's 18 years old with a JetDirect card - still prints crisp prints :D

As always, very interesting. But I wish you had explained the reason behind the American screw fit bulb versus the British bayonet fit bulb thing and why it's called a bayonet fitting.

@Markle2k

3 жыл бұрын

It's more difficult to accidentally touch the live connection with a screw bulb in a fixture that is correctly hooked up. They are called bayonet fittings because they work like the connection that secures a bayonet to a rifle.

LED bulbs should last almost indefinitely. So, why don't they? Could you do a video on that plese?

@hornetIIkite3

3 жыл бұрын

The LED's do. The $0,05 transformer that drives it doesn't

@bryanjk

3 жыл бұрын

Poor build quality as well to make them dirt cheap. Heat reduces the LED and other component's life. Bulbs are overdriving LEDs running them hot but bright and most just have a tiny sliver of sheet metal as a "heatsink". Install one in an enclosed fixture in the ceiling or similar, and it's amazing many of the bulbs last as long as they do.

@jaymevosburgh3660

3 жыл бұрын

Because then the companies selling them would not make more money since you would only ever need to buy the one, maybe two just in case. Greed holds our species back.

@alexisjuillard4816

3 жыл бұрын

Jayme Vosburgh yeah it’s basically a combination of all of the above, the 2 most frequent failures are due to the cheap components in the driver circuit that certainly don’t have that lifespan, and insufficient heat dissipation because the manufacturer didn’t put enough metal, for cost reasons i imagine. But when a led dies most of the time it can be easily repaired. I salvage them all, and even when the led is the failure its not worth throwing, only one diode out of the many failed the rest are good to reuse or you can repplace the bad one

@BTheBlindRef

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaymevosburgh3660 How likely are you to buy a $50 light bulb, even if it does last for 20+ years? Most people are much more willing to fork out $5 for a bulb that lasts them 5 or 6. In fact, the "cheap but lasts a shorter amount of time" can be CHEAPER for the end user in some cases depending on how expensive it is to make something last "effectively forever". Companies don't exist if they can't pay the bills, and if they charge near at cost for something that lasts forever, they may sell a bunch up front, then go bankrupt immediately afterwards. Who does that help exactly? The economic model has to work for both the business AND the consumer. I'm not saying some things that the businesses described here were doing weren't shady, but they do need to make sure they operate in a way that is sustainable as a business, which does require ongoing cash flow of some sort.

Except, oddly, laser printers. I've had mine for four years, and not only am I just now getting to the end of the pack-in cartridge, it has had literally zero print-faults over its life. It was $100 on sale... Canadian.

Electrician here. Any light bulb will last longer if you never turn it off, or at least as little as possible. Also, when installing a new fluorescent bulb, leave it on for at least 48 hours, it will last longer and have a cleaner light quality.

How about: Why is 53' the industry standard for trailer length for 18-wheelers in America? Seems kinda random.....

@emuwasi

3 жыл бұрын

That does sound like a good topic.

@animistchannel2983

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting question. Two things come to mind. First, for packing them onto railroad cars and cargo ships. Second, for making turns on relatively standard sized public roads. Those are good reasons to have a standard of about that size, and 53' is probably just what was settled on by happenstance. You're right, though. The actual circumstance behind that happenstance would be an interesting story. My bet would be that getting 2 of them in a row on (and off) a standard railroad flat-car probably set the size initially, and that some sort of legislation or industry agreement confirmed it later on. Let's hope the TIFO guys notice and think it's worth researching.

@flagmichael

3 жыл бұрын

Probably 16 meters (52 feet, 6 inches)... but again, why? It really would be interesting.

@senorvillarruel8129

2 жыл бұрын

In some us states some semis could connect to up to 3 trailers thats like 60'+

@BaronessErsatz

2 жыл бұрын

Villarruel, yikes. Just freaking yikes.

Low voltage halogens with a magnetic power supply last a long time because they heat up slowly and reduce thermal shock. I can see the light fading on. Now they make retrofit LED units with all parts molded and glued together, sometimes including brains, sensors , a battery, and a decorative lampshade. If one component fails, the entire unit must be tossed. Recycling these devices is also harder because of the mixture of materials. How convenient that the conspiracy comes to light after incandescent lamps cannot be bought anymore.

in the late 1890s. The bulb is a prototype "fluorescent" light he invented consisting of a partially evacuated glass bulb with a single metal electrode. So before the 1920s there were better bulbs.

@flagmichael

3 жыл бұрын

I think you are referring to the no-idea-what-it-was-called bulb that was excited by a tesla coil. Not really fluorescent, but luminous through the electrical discharge in a sparse atmosphere. IIRC the bulbs were made somewhat practical by using the new compound, carborundum, as the element because metals sputtered themselves away rapidly. Kinda cool.

Great idea!!

Honestly I've never felt this as most of my lightbulbs last year's. Like I've had the same lights on my bathroom for almost 20 years

If you are talking about the invention of tungsten filament lamp, you should at least mention Franjo Hanaman and Alexander Just, who filed a patent in Budapest on 13 December 1904. They were put on the market by Hungarian company Tungsram. A bit later, in 1906, William D. Coolidge improved the design while working for GE.

Simon, the lightbulb overlords want to have a word with you...

I bought a £5 led bulb from Wilkos last year.The bulbs in the house where dying every month or so. This one is on all the time unless i am alseep. Its still going strong. I will never buy a cheap bulb again.

There was an OPEC of lighbulbs... very interesting! ⚡🍻

4 likes. No views. Yep this is the KZread I know and love.

@westrim

3 жыл бұрын

It's almost like they're different values counted by different systems and delivered by different servers.

@Regic

3 жыл бұрын

Tom Scott made a video about it called something like "why computers can't count sometimes"

Behind the news theme is killing me haha my grade 7 self just wakes up everytime I hear that 😂

The early 1920's we're a wild time, right guys? Right? High five! 2020 sitting in a dark corner of the bar: Yeah, right. Wait until I get drunk, I'll turn this globe upside down and shake it in your faces.

@apeiceofgarbage9848

3 жыл бұрын

😂👌accurate

edison never developed a commercially viable lamp. Hundreds of people worked for him, edison just took their ideas and patented them.

This was quite enlightening

When I was a kid Detroit Edison had a free light bulb exchange program, you took in your burned out bulbs and they gave you new ones, rumor was that they reused the base and that is why they wanted the bulbs back, later as an adult thinking about it that of course made no sense at all so I really have no idea what they did with the burned out bulbs or why they had the program in the first place.

@cougarhunter33

3 жыл бұрын

Because they sold power. Power that you pay for to use to light the light bulbs that they probably got for free.

@flagmichael

3 жыл бұрын

@@cougarhunter33 That makes sense: if customers didn't get free incandescent bulbs they might have switched to fluorescents.

I believe all major manufacturing companies do this to a point. They have created a throwaway society and it should be a crime against humanity

In Polish osram translates to "i will shit on". Still a popular brand there

This definitely should have been an extended Business Blaze Episode 🤓

in the late 1890s. The bulb is a prototype "fluorescent" light he invented consisting of a partially evacuated glass bulb with a single metal electrode.

I see it all so much more clearly now.

Joseph Swan's lightbulb actually came slightly before Edison's and Swan was even experimenting with prototypes years before but was limited then by incredibly short lifespans due to poor vacuum pumps at the time

In my grandfather’s house one lightbulb lasted 50 years. The next one 5... it was in a staircase used rarely.

There is a Older still burning lightbulb in a museum in Fort Worth.

Thanks for shining a light on this😉

@bltvd

3 жыл бұрын

Hayreddin Barbarossa dud!

@seanbaugh3239

3 жыл бұрын

*"D'oh !!!" 😖*

My two year old thinks Simon is me. If you ever need a stand in, hit me up.

We need Open Source Printer!

Coffee an light bulbs. Good times.

Feel free to steal this idea: lightbulbs that don't go out, but they come in a huge variety of colors. #1 people will be happy they last so long. #2 people will want to buy different colors since they last so long, and other varieties of reasons. #3 by having to change the bulb, the chance it might break occurs. This would prompt people to stock up or just buy a new one when one physically breaks. That way the consumer isn't really screwed over unless they're not careful, and the lightbulb company would still get money because accidents happen.

Would love to see a video on Parker Pens as well. The Duofold and the Parker 51, probably the ultimate manifestation of "keeping up with the Joneses" in modern history.

Phebus....it means sun god.....thank you Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame

Let's not forget every vehicle on the road after ww2 had to have 1 of 2 styles of sealed beam headlights, round or rectangle. Made only by by G.E. and Edison elec. This lasted until the early 1980s!

The modern light bulb is just another example of _Engineered Obsolescence_ Products designed with a limited lifespan to encourage repeat business for companies.

@flagmichael

3 жыл бұрын

There is a choice in design: a designed lifetime or random failures. The second type is the one that makes some fail in the first few days and makes replacement of the whole set at one time pointless. So many people think lifetime engineering is a bad thing, while it is the basis of what we see as reliability. Nothing lasts forever, and few things are good if they last more than 20 years or so. When I was a kid we had a toaster that you stood beside and manually flipped the bread over when it looked like the first side was done, then flipped all the way down when it was done on both sides. (I saw one just like it in a museum 25 years ago.) It probably still works, but who cares? americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1119620 Not exactly the same but very close. We also had a wringer washing machine. I don't miss either one.

The centennial bulb looks a lot more modern than its website.

Consumerism, I just love it. You buy items with out even thinking and if they don't work or fit, you just go to a different shop and buy more. Buy more Buy moreeeeeeeeee

@sandybarnes887

3 жыл бұрын

WallMart.

Frankly for the cheap printers, it’s cheaper to buy a new printer than it is to replace the ink.

I been using lightbulbs for years, I wonder what surprises this video will enlighten me with.

Forget the concrete club, this is the ILLUMINATIon

"This is a stupid depression" Love the abstract there

Very illuminating video Simon! Throw your writers an extra bone or two!

Legend has it that on the day that the Livermore bulb burns out, ....

@flagmichael

3 жыл бұрын

...let's just say life insurance becomes a moot point....