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July 15, 2016 10:31 am PDT
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For 90 years, lightbulbs were designed to burn out, now that's coming to LED bulbs
In 1924, representatives of the world's leading lightbulb manufacturers formed Phoebus, a cartel that fixed the average life of an incandescent bulb at 1,000 hours, ensuring that people would have to regularly buy bulbs and keep the manufacturers in business. (more…)
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