Comment by mrweasel
1 day ago
Those where everywhere in the late 80s, complete with 80W incandescent light bulbs. I'm not suggestion that it can't catch fire, but even if it did wouldn't the paper would burn so fast that not enough heat is generated to ignite anything else?
I'm not an engineer, but I learned that the full size Edison incandescent bulbs can't get hot enough to burn anything. And if anything breaches the bulb, the filament opens up instantly. Kind of an old fashioned failsafe design.
The tiny halogen lamps weren't that way, and there were reports of "torchiere" lamps causing fires, or at least smoke, when peoples draperies dangled into them, resulting in a ban IIRC.