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Though I've never seen it in writing, I was told as a young Electrician's Mate that when the rating was created someone said "make the symbol a globe", which in the early days of electricity was what we now call a light bulb. The person hearing it assumed they meant "globe of the earth" since electricity was fairly new back then and lots of people didn't have experience with electric lights yet.
Seems a little hard to believe that such a mistake would have made it through all the reviews one would assume such a decision must have gone through. However that is the only reason I've ever heard during an entire career in the Navy as an EM and later an officer in charge of EMs, and can't find any other explanation in a quick search of the internet now.
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