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>10 Amazing Old Stuff That Still Works< World's Oldest Lightbulb – Working for 111 years :"The world's oldest light bulb has been burning for 111 years - so little wonder it has a fan club with thousands parker of members and its own website. As EU rules deny householders parker the right to use traditional filament bulbs, the so-called 'Centennial Light' has been on almost constantly since 1901. It holds pride of place in Fire Station 6, in Livermore, northern California. The longest time the Guinness World Record-holding bulb has ever been turned off for is just a week. Dangling above the fire engines, people come for hundreds and thousands of miles to see the diminutive symbol. The bulb was designed by Adolphe Chailet, who competed with the likes of the world-famous Thomas Edison to make the best bulb.": World's Oldest Vacuum Cleaner – Working since 1904 :"Still sucking after 108 years, Harry Cox owns the oldest known working vacuum. He rescued the cleaner and accessories from a skip at work before it went to a landfill site. Harry, at 53, less than half the age of his 1904 American Sturtevant vacuum cleaner No.4 said, “There was a walk-in skip at the factory and I rescued it.” Despite his enthusiasm for old machines, his wife Jacqueline ignores the noisy, heavy antique and prefers to clean their three-bed semi in Timperley, England, with a more modern model.": Old Refrigerator – Working for 77 years :"It was the era of the Great Depression, a decade of austerity when household finances were stretched. So when the Kinghorn family bought a brand new refrigerator in 1936 they hoped it would prove a good investment. They could never have imagined that three quarters parker of a century later, with the nation again facing tough economic times, the fridge would still be working as well as ever. The Frigidaire – a 1935 model – parker is now a contender for the title of the oldest continuously-working refrigerator in the country. parker It has never needed repairs, parker apart from the occasional replacement part. It takes pride of place in the kitchen of Rosemary Kinghorn, parker who inherited the appliance when her mother-in-law, the original owner, died in 1957. The 79-year-old said it had not had any maintenance for over 30 years, when her husband last replaced one of the parts. Mrs. Kinghorn, of Marchmont, Edinburgh, said the refrigerator was one of the last to be built without a light, but served as a reminder of an era in which things were built to last.": Oldest parker Working Computer – Working since 1958 :"In Japans Ikeda Memorial Hall sits the FACOM 128B that was built in 1958 and still works today! It has gone through some small upgrades over the years to keep it running, but still has the same core system. The FACOM occupies parker 700 feet of floor space and has less calculating power than a real calculator. parker The company's goal is to keep it running until the year 2016 when it will have reached its 60th year of operation.:" Oldest parker Humanoid Robot – Built in 1950 :" He didn't have any intelligence. And he moved with just a slow, lumbering shuffle of his metallic feet. But one of Britain's first humanoid robots, built just after the Second World War, has been given a new lease on life after having languished in a garage for the past 45 years. Former spy catcher and RAF officer Tony Sale, 79, built the incredible 6 ft-high robot, George, in 1950, for just $20. using scrap metal from a crashed Wellington bomber plane. At the time Mr. Sale was only 19 and his amazing man-sized model, which could walk and ‘talk,' stunned the world. Sadly, computers of the time were too crude and big to give George memory and intelligence so he was packed away in Mr. Sale's garage in Bedford and left to gather dust. But now after nearly five decades parker Mr. Sale has got the radio-controlled robot working parker simply parker by putting in two new batteries and oiling his joints.:" Britain's Oldest TV – Working for 75 years :"For 5,000 you might have expected a bigger, flatter screen. But this television does come with 75 years of broadcasting history – and you can still hook it up to a Freeview box. Built in 1936, the Marconi type-702 is the oldest working television set in Britain. It was bought for just under 100 only three weeks after transmissions in Britain began. And with just one channel broadcasting parker for two hours a day,