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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.
Pasteur, Louis: 643: Wallace, Alfred Russel ... Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson: Engineering (31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914) invented the incandescent light bulb: 678 ...
The house in which Pasteur was born, Dole. Louis Pasteur was born on 27 December 1822, in Dole, Jura, France, to a Catholic family of a poor tanner. [14] He was the third child of Jean-Joseph Pasteur and Jeanne-Etiennette Roqui. The family moved to Marnoz in 1826 and then to Arbois in 1827. [15] [16] Pasteur entered primary school in 1831. [17]
It was lit by Joseph Swan's incandescent lamp on 3 February 1879. [38] [39] Comparison of Edison, Maxim, and Swan bulbs, 1885 Edison carbon filament lamps, early 1880s Thomas Alva Edison. Thomas Edison began serious research into developing a practical incandescent lamp in 1878.
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 .
The Edison and Swan Electric Light Company Limited was a manufacturer of incandescent lamp bulbs and other electrical goods. It was formed in 1883 with the name Edison & Swan United Electric Light Company with the merger of the Swan United Electric Company and the Edison Electric Light Company. [1] [2]
On July 24, 1874, Woodward and his partner, Mathew Evans, a hotel keeper, filed a Canadian patent application on an electric light bulb. [2] [3] It was granted on August 3, 1874, as Canadian patent number 3,738. [4] Woodward was a medical student at the time. Their light bulb comprised a glass tube with a large piece of carbon connected to two ...
Most of the bulbs in circulation are reproductions of the wound filament bulbs made popular by Edison Electric Light Company at the turn of the 20th century. They are easily identified by the long and complicated windings of their internal filaments, and by the very warm-yellow glow of the light they produce (many of the bulbs emit light at a ...