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Sir Joseph Wilson Swan
FRS
Photograph of Swan, circa 1900
Born
Joseph Wilson Swan
(1828-10-31)31 October 1828
Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, Tyne And Wear, England
Died
27 May 1914(1914-05-27) (aged 85)
Warlingham, Surrey, England
Nationality
British
Known for
Incandescent light bulb Photographic process
Awards
Hughes Medal (1904) Albert Medal (1906)
Scientific career
Fields
Physics, Chemistry
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.[1][2]
In 1904, Swan was knighted by King Edward VII,[3] awarded the Royal Society's Hughes Medal, and was made an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society. He had received the highest decoration in France, the Legion of Honour, when he visited the 1881 International Exposition of Electricity, Paris. The exhibition included displays of his inventions, and the city was lit with his electric lighting.[4]
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^Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 434–435. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^Shaw, Wm. A. (1971). The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of All the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of the Knights Bachelors. Vol. 2. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 419. OCLC 247620448.
^"Pharmacy — the mother of invention? — Sir Joseph Swan (1828–1914)". RPSGB.org.uk. Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB). Archived from the original on 24 September 2006. Retrieved 11 January 2010. Swan made groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of electric lighting and photography. He had already received the Legion of Honour when he visited an international exhibition in Paris in 1881. The exhibition included exhibits of his inventions, and the city was lit with electric light, thanks to Swan's invention.
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