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July 06, 2021

Old School and New (Mixed) - John Dunn, Consultant, Ambertec, P.E., P.C.

We were at the Nassau County Museum of Art today in Roslyn, NY and saw the "La Belle Epoque" exhibit which included several Tiffany lamps, always a delight to examine. This was just one of them:

Tiffany and LEDs 1

It's beautiful, isn't it??

I looked a little closer like any self respecting engineer would and then I noticed something which was understandable, absolutely justified, proper and yet somehow appalling.

This lamp and all the others had been rewired with modern-day zip cord but even more startling was the following:

Tiffany and LEDs 2

All of the incandescent light bulbs were now 2700°K color temperature LED bulbs.

The traditionalist in me tremored a little bit, but let's face it, the old power cords were probably not safe anymore, the LED bulbs run cooler I think that the original filament bulbs had run and when looking at this lamp, and the other lamps too, they looked really nice.

I let myself be pleased.

Posted at 10:41 PM |

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