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Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS (31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914) was an English physicist, chemist, and inventor.He is known as an independent early developer of a successful incandescent light bulb, and is the person responsible for developing and supplying the first incandescent lights used to illuminate homes and public buildings, including the Savoy Theatre, London, in 1881.
Joseph Swan was a committee member and for some time treasurer of the Glasgow Mechanics’ Institution which was founded in 1832. From January 1824, the institution published a very successful magazine which included many of his engravings such as portraits of James Watt and John Anderson, founder of Anderson’s institution, and the numerous mechanical inventions and improvements discussed in ...
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan: Underhill, Kells Lane, Low Fell. [26] 2005 Swan was a chemist and physicist who invented the incandescent light bulb, demonstrating this to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1880. His home at Kells Lane, where his blue plaque is now appended, was the first in the world lit by electric light.
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Blue plaque commemorates Swan's invention of the electric light bulb, and Underhill as the first house in the world to be wired for domestic electric lighting. Underhill is a large and imposing detached house, located at 99 Kells Lane in the Low Fell district of Gateshead , [ 1 ] north-east England, United Kingdom .
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