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user-inactivated  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The L.E.D. Quandary: Why There’s No Such Thing as “Built to Last"

The punctuation, while accurate, is unnecessary because the sentence e could be simplified. For example, if I were to write it, it might come out like this . . .

    The bulb has been on almost continuously since 1901, he said. It surpassed a million hours in service in 2015, making it the longest-burning in the world according to Guinness World Records.