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"A.P. Richelieu" <aprichelieu@gmail.com> writes:
> That would work in the office.
> If you needed a bulb for the home, it was a little more complex.

The New York Subway and some other public places in the US used bulbs
with left handed threads, so they wouldn't fit in normal fixtures.
People who stole the bulbs discovered this, and didn't bother stealing
any more of them.