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Sir Joseph Swan (1828-1914), English physicist and chemist, 1911-1912. Artist: D Cameron-SwanSir Joseph Swan (1828-1914), English physicist and chemist, 1911-1912. Swan invented the incandescent electric lamp in Britain at about the same time as Thomas Edison patented it in the USA
The First Incandescent Electric Lamp, c1916. Early carbon and rod filament incandescent electric lamp 1878-9. Made by the English chemist, Joseph Swan (1827-1914)
Edisons incandescent light globe in a table lamp fitting, 1891. The filament here is carbonised bamboo fibres. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor
Edisons incandescent lamps showing various forms of carbon filament, 1883. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American physicist and inventor, produced the first successful electric light bulb
Swan incandescent lamps, University College, Dundee, Scotland, 1884Swan incandescent lamps fitted in the engineering classrooms at University College, Dundee, Scotland, 1884