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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 Rockwell Swan (December 28, 1802 – December 18, 1884) was a Republican politician in the U.S. State of Ohio who was a judge on the Ohio Supreme Court 1855–1860. Biography [ edit ]
The Edison and Swan Electric Light Company Limited was a manufacturer of incandescent lamp bulbs and ... Joseph Swan established the Swan United Electric Light ...
Built primarily from sandstone in Victorian architectural style, it was the home of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan from 1869–1883, and is the first domestic property in the world to be illuminated by electric light bulb. [2] Previously used as a school, it is currently used as retirement sheltered housing. [citation needed]
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.
Joseph Swan was born 11 November 1796 in Manchester England to Thomas Swan and Janet Russell. He started his career in what had become his hometown of Edinburgh as an apprentice to engraver John Beugo and worked with other engravers. In August 1817, he married Margaret Thomson in Edinburgh before setting off to Glasgow.
Joseph Rockwell Swan (October 21, 1878 – November 1965) was an American investment banker, football player and coach. He played college football for Yale University from 1899 to 1901 and was the head coach of the 1902 team.
It was the home of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan between 1869 and 1883 [66] and was the site of many pioneering experiments in photographic processing and in electricity. [67] Described as "a large, unlovely polychrome villa", [ 68 ] Underhill is triple gabled, and built of roughly dressed sandstone, and was the first private residence in the world to ...