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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.
The Ohio Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the law by a three-to-two ruling. Although Chief Justice Joseph Rockwell Swan was personally opposed to slavery, he wrote that his judicial duty left him no choice but to acknowledge that an Act of the United States Congress was the supreme law of the land (see Supremacy Clause), and to ...
1879 Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan patent the carbon-thread incandescent lamp. It lasted 40 hours. 1880 Edison produced a 16-watt lightbulb that lasts 1500 hours. 1882 Introduction of large scale direct current based indoor incandescent lighting and lighting utility with Edison's first Pearl Street Station
Joseph Swan (1828–1914) was a British physicist and chemist. Joseph Swan may also refer to: Joseph Swan (engraver) (1796–1872), engraver and publisher active in Glasgow; Joseph Swan Academy, a secondary school in England; Joseph Rockwell Swan (politician) (1802–1884), American politician and judge
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 .
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 ...
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Included in Johannes de Alta Silva's Dolopathos sive de Rege et Septem Sapientibus (ca. 1190), a Latin version of the Seven Sages of Rome is a story of the swan children which has served as a precursor to the poems of the Crusade cycle. [18] The tale was adapted into the French Li romans de Dolopathos by the poet Herbert. [19]