Name something built by a hardware startup in the recent past or imaginable future which would be designed once and built for 10 and 50 years exactly the same.
Ad from 1924.[1]
Current product brochure.[2]
Jenkins used to advertise that one from a 19th century water main had been removed because the line was being re-routed by a water utility. The valve was cleaned up and put on display, and after a while, when everybody was tired of looking at it, it was put back into inventory and went back into the ground, probably to serve another 100 years.
[1] https://s.ecrater.com/stores/260372/5725ed67b3cab_260372b.jp...
[2] http://www.cranecpe.com/chem-energy/products/valves/gate-val...
recent past
1924
I think you may've skipped a step.More than 150 years!
"Jenkins Valves - Since 1864"
How many other electronic devices can make that claim?