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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.
A 230-volt incandescent light bulb with a medium-sized E27 (Edison 27 mm) male screw base. The filament is visible as the mostly horizontal line between the vertical supply wires.
Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).
The Jerry Yang Stock Index From January 2008 to November 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Jerry Yang joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -33.6 percent return on your investment, compared to a -7.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
English: Diagram showing the major parts of a modern incandescent light bulb. Glass bulb; Inert gas; Tungsten filament; Contact wire (goes to the foot) Contact wire (goes to the base)
"I blew it." Dane Cook says he was just a few jokes away from being cast in Saturday Night Live. "On my way to my audition at SNL, I had a full-on panic attack," Cook said on a recent episode of ...
Yang Chen-Ning or Chen-Ning Yang (simplified Chinese: 杨振宁; traditional Chinese: 楊振寧; pinyin: Yáng Zhènníng; born 1 October 1922), [1] also known as C. N. Yang or by the English name Frank Yang, [2] is a Chinese theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable systems, gauge theory, and ...
Yang Wenlu (Chinese: 杨文璐; born 13 January 1991) is a Chinese boxer. She won gold at the 2016 World Championships and the 2022 Asian Games . Early life and education