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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.
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.
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 .
Sir Joseph Baxter Ellis: December 1912. Sir Edward Grey: October 1913. Sir Charles Algernon Parsons: March 1914. Sir Joseph Swan: March 1914. Field Marshal Jan Smuts: October 1917. David Lloyd George: September 1918. Major General Sir Robert Arundel Kerr Montgomery: February 1919. Admiral of the Fleet David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty: April 1919.
Thomas married Anna Prentice in 1884 and the Mawsons made their family home in Windermere, Westmorland, in 1885. They had four sons and five daughters. [1] Their eldest son, Edward Prentice Mawson, was a successful landscape architect and took over the running of his father's firm [1] [2] when his father developed Parkinson's disease in 1923.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is set to lead the horror feature “Pendulum,” written and directed by “Black Swan” scribe Mark Heyman. The film will be produced by Darren Aronofsky (“Black Swan ...
Grace College (formerly Joseph Swan School, then Joseph Swan Academy) is a mixed secondary school with academy status situated in south Gateshead, England which educates pupils ages 11–18. The school was originally named after the English physicist and chemist, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan. In 2001, the school was awarded Specialist Technology ...