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The lightbulbs thing was (possibly) different. There's some physical limits on the performance of lightbulbs so the time to failure test was more of a proxy to make sure bulbs of a certain wattage were outputting similar strength and color light.
https://youtu.be/zb7Bs98KmnY?si=UQzU-Vn2E01Bs4sm
I don't know if there were other reasons this glass tech didn't catch on besides the obvious capitalism issues, but the lightbulb thing is definitely a misunderstood piece of trivia.
Ha I knew someone would bring up Tech Connections. Both vids feature fascinating science history!