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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.
In 1881, Sir Joseph Swan, inventor of the first feasible incandescent light bulb, supplied about 1,200 Swan incandescent lamps to the Savoy Theatre in the City of Westminster, London, which was the first theatre, and the first public building in the world, to be lit entirely by electricity.
Joseph Swan (1828–1914), English physicist, chemist and inventor; Frédéric Swarts (1866–1940), Belgian chemist, prepared the first chlorofluorocarbon compound; Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914–1994), 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1845: Rubber band patented by inventor Stephen Perry (dates not known). [68] 1878: Incandescent light bulb invented by Joseph Wilson Swan (1828–1914). [69] [70] 1884: Light switch invented by John Henry Holmes (dates not known) in Shieldfield. 1899: Little Nipper Mouse trap invented by James Henry Atkinson (1849–1942).
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]
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 mechanical inventions and improvements discussed in ...
1879: British physicist-chemist Joseph Swan independently developed an incandescent light bulb at the same time as American inventor Thomas Edison was independently working on his incandescent light bulb. [44] Swan's first successful electric light bulb and Edison's electric light bulb were both patented in 1879. [45]