Comment by analog31

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.