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  2. Joseph Swan - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Alessandro Cruto - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Lewis Howard Latimer - Wikipedia

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    Lewis Howard Latimer (September 4, 1848 – December 11, 1928) was an American inventor and patent draftsman. His inventions included an evaporative air conditioner, an improved process for manufacturing carbon filaments for electric light bulbs, and an improved toilet system for railroad cars.

  5. Alexander Lodygin - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin, known after immigration to US as Alexandre de Lodyguine (Russian: Александр Николаевич Лодыгин; October 6, 1847 – March 16, 1923) was a Russian electrical engineer and inventor, one of the inventors of the incandescent light bulb.

  6. Henry Woodward (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. List of inventors - Wikipedia

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    Sushruta (600 BC), Vedic India – inventor of Plastic Surgery, Cataract Surgery, Rhinoplasty; Theodor Svedberg (1884–1971), Sweden – Analytical ultracentrifuge; 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 ...

  8. Franjo Hanaman - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. William E. Sawyer - Wikipedia

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    William Edward Sawyer (c. 1850 – May 15, 1883) [1] was an American inventor whose contribution was primarily in the field of electric engineering and electric lighting. His primary inventions included: Telegraph apparatus for cable use (March 31, 1874) Automatic and autographic telegraph and circuit (February 2, 1875)