<P> The fifth longest - lasting light bulb was in a washroom at the Martin & Newby Electrical Shop in Ipswich, England . Given its shape and design, it was thought to date from the 1930s . It burned out in January 2001 . </P> <P> Thomas Edison designed a bulb that was supposed to last forever, called the Eternal Light, and turned it on on October 22, 1929 . The bulb is located in the Memorial Tower at the Edison Memorial Museum in Menlo Park, New Jersey . The tower fell down in 1937, but the bulb's power was supposedly uninterrupted, according to General Electric, and the bulb continued to burn while a second tower was constructed . However, according to museum curator Jack Stanley, the bulb is fake, consisting of a hollow bulb illuminated by a series of automobile headlights mounted in the display's base . </P>

Who created the longer lasting version of the light bulb