Wow, super cool!

Hope this can go to a good home.

I was looking at the old AEL website on the Wayback Machine, and found the 110 series in the 'Security Lights' section, and was wondering if anyone knows if they were used by any utilities, or towns etc..., they have a European look to them, perhaps rebaged?

https://web.archive.org/web/20061019073125/http://www.americanelectriclighting.com/Products/Family.asp?Brand=AEL&Family=Series%20110&FID=

Not 'severe' weather here, but...
We're in a heatwave right now. Highs in the 80's the past few days, and forecast shows a high of 91 for tomorrow. (today it got to atleast 82, & humidity of 5%)
This is far above "normal" for here in March. (normal is mid 60's)
Down in Denver they set not only a new high for the day (both today & yesterday), but a new highest ever temp for March as a whole. & another new record is expected tomorrow.

I imagine I probably would, especially since I personally have asthma.

Yep if you have asthma, you deff wouldn't want to go out in something like that.
With stuff like dust-storms, sometimes they'll even put in the storm-warning text that people with sensitive breathing conditions like that (plus young children & elderly) should avoid going outdoors if they can.

Probobly the only video of the inside of a ge mission bell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfylSRWYmuM

This is a GE/ Holophane series housing and 2-way lens, missing the lamp socket.  I removed the insulator bushings in anticipation of a restoration but moved on to other things.

To see the neon glow through the phosphor coating is not easy.   you often have to place the lamp in a deep freezer to solidify the mercury and then it becomes much easier.  On the other hand, all of these gas fillings seem to have changed so frequently and between different manufacturers, it’s possible there is a different fill in your Osram lamp.

Some led lamps 15 years ago: cheap 5mm leds packed without heat management with absurd specs (like a 1.5W lamp rated as an 60W incandescent lamp).
They weren't even cheap

Yeah that's weird, it probably was a bad connection. Maybe the bad connection was also causing it to do the flickering a few months ago too.

There is quite detailed Youtube teardown video from Australia on dismantling sulfur microwave lantern.

As much as we all love conspiracy theories, I believe the system was buried by pure economical reasons:

- tremendously overcomplicated! Really visible in this video. Incessant RF shields to keep microwave energy at home. Two running fans to keep the thermal mode - imagine this in an outdoor lantern!!! An extra motor just to rotate discharge bulb.

- huge bulky expensive and inefficient transformer to power magnetron

- magnetron is inefficient by iself

- magnetron has a finite life of just a few thousand hours