The London Power Company commemorated Swan by naming a new 1,554 GRT coastal collier SS Sir Joseph Swan
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Joseph Swan
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was an English physicist, chemist, and inventor. He is known as an independent early developer of a successful incandescent light bulb, and is responsible for developing the first use of incandescent lights used to illuminate homes and public buildings, including the Savoy Theatre, London, in 1881.
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science · British physicist and inventor (1828–1914) · chemist · physicist · inventor · engineer · also Joseph Swan, Joseph Wilson Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, Swan
Born 31 October 1828 · Died 27 May 1914 · Q315422
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1930· 1 entry
Frances Isobel and Turing began exchanging letters
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1924· 1 entry
Frances Isobel gifted a bronze statue she created of her late father to The Literary & Philosophical Society of Newcastle in Newcastle upon Tyne
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1916· 1 entry
Ediswan set up the UK's first radio thermionic valve factory at Ponders End
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1914· 2 entries
Died 1914-05-27.
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At his home in Overhill, Warlingham, Surrey
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1906· 2 entries
Won Albert Medal (1906).
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Received the Albert medal of the Royal Society of Arts
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1904· 3 entries
Won Hughes Medal (1904).
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Swan was knighted by King Edward VII, awarded the Royal Society's Hughes Medal, and was made a member of the Pharmaceutical Society
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Swan was knighted, awarded the Royal Society's Hughes Medal, and made an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society
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1903· 1 entry
Was chosen first president of the Faraday Society
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1901· 1 entry
Was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science (D
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1894· 1 entry
Swan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), and in 1898 he was elected president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers; at the time, Swan was one of its three honorary members, the other two being Lord Kel
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1892· 1 entry
General Electric (GE) began exploiting Swan's patents to produce cellulose filaments, until they were replaced in 1904 by a GE developed "General Electric Metallized" (GEM) baked cellulose filaments
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1886· 1 entry
Ediswan moved production to a former jute mill at Ponders End, North London
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1883· 1 entry
To the two competing companies merging to exploit both Swan's and Edison's inventions, with the establishment of the Edison & Swan United Electric Light Company
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1881· 3 entries
Founded his own company, The Swan Electric Light Company, and started commercial production
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While the Edison Company continued using bamboo filaments outside of Britain
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Developed and patented a process for squeezing nitrocellulose through holes to form conducting fibres
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1875· 1 entry
Swan returned to consider the problem of the light bulb with the aid of a better vacuum and a carbonised thread as a filament
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1864· 1 entry
Swan, via the introduction of carbon tissue, patented the transfer process for making carbon prints a permanent photographic process
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1850· 1 entry
Swan began working on a light bulb using carbonised paper filaments in an evacuated glass bulb
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1846· 1 entry
Swan was offered a partnership at Mawson's
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1828· 3 entries
Born 1828-10-31.
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“Who should die, the Germans or the Jews? You know what your eternal enemy and opponent intends for you. There is only one instrument against his plans for annihilation.”
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At Pallion Hall in Pallion, in the Parish of Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, County Durham
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