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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.
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.
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]
Henry Woodward was a Canadian inventor and a major pioneer in the development of the incandescent lamp. [1] He was born in 1832. 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]
1907: Rosenthal puts in his image telegraph for the first time a photocell. 1911: First film studios are created in Hollywood and Potsdam- Babelsberg . 1912: The first radio receiver is created, in accordance with the Audion principle. 1913: The legal battle over the invention of the electron tube between Robert von Lieben and Lee de Forest is ...
Franjo Hanaman (seated) and Alexander Just. Franjo Hanaman (June 30, 1878 – January 23, 1941) was a Croatian inventor, engineer, and chemist, who gained world recognition for inventing the world's first applied electric light-bulb with a metal filament with his assistant Alexander Just, independently of his contemporaries.
Joseph Swan (1828–1914), UK – Incandescent light bulb; Robert Swanson (1905–1994), Canada – invented and developed the first multi-chime air horn for use with diesel locomotives; Andrei Sychra (c.1773/76–1850), Lithuania/Russia, Czech descent – Russian seven-string guitar
The work for the American Electric Light Co. in 1881, the patents from 1882, and the report in the New York Times from April 30, 1882 are the earliest clear sources for work of Heinrich Göbel related to incandescent electric light bulbs. No earlier source is known to prove any kind of relation with incandescent light bulbs, nor indeed any kind ...