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10-JUN-2014 Michael Ramsay

Let there be light - Michael
by Michael Ramsay

An exhibition of Swan incandescent lights

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, D.Sc.h.c., FRS (31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914) was a British physicist and chemist. He is most famous for inventing an incandescent light bulb.

Swan first demonstrated the light bulb at a lecture in Newcastle upon Tyne on 18 December 1878, but he did not receive a patent until 27 November 1880 (patent No. 4933

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Guest 22-Sep-2014 23:50
Nice one, Michael. TonySx