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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.
Hiram S. Maxim was the chief engineer at the US Electric Lighting Co. [52] After the great success in the United States, the incandescent light bulb patented by Edison also began to gain widespread popularity in Europe as well; among other places, the first Edison light bulbs in the Nordic countries were installed at the weaving hall of the ...
The first was released in 1929 at Menlo Park, NJ, two years before his death; a 2-cent red, on the 50th anniversary of his invention of the incandescent light, and again in 1947, 3-cent violet, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, first released in Milan, Ohio, his place of birth. [168] [169]
[1] [2] These carbon filament bulbs, the first electric light bulbs, became available commercially that same year. [3] In 1904 a tungsten filament was invented by Austro-Hungarians Alexander Just and Franjo Hanaman , [ 4 ] and was more efficient and longer-lasting than the carbonized bamboo filament used previously. [ 5 ]
1867 Edmond Becquerel demonstrates the first fluorescent lamp. [5] 1874 Alexander Lodygin patents an incandescent light bulb. 1875 Henry Woodward patents an electric light bulb. 1876 Pavel Yablochkov invents the Yablochkov candle, the first practical carbon arc lamp, for public street lighting in Paris.
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 ...
An electric light, lamp, or light bulb is an electrical component that produces light. It is the most common form of artificial lighting . Lamps usually have a base made of ceramic , metal, glass, or plastic which secures the lamp in the socket of a light fixture , which is often called a "lamp" as well.
Alessandro Cruto was an Italian inventor, born in the town of Piossasco, near Turin, who created an early incandescent light bulb.. Son of a construction foreman, he attended the school of architecture at the University of Turin, while also attending Physics and Chemistry lectures with the dream of crystallizing carbon to obtain diamonds. [1]