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SIR JOSEPH WILSON SWAN , ENGLISH CHEMIST AND ELECTRICIAN. PHOTOGRAPH CA. 1905.

Portrait of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan Discoverer of Carbon Filament Bulb

View of the first incandescent electric lamp by Sir Joseph Wilson Swan.

Incandescent Light

Plate taken from 'La Lumiere Electrique' . Sir Joseph Wilson Swan , English scientist and inventor, invented the incandescent electric lamp in...

Mr Swans electrical workshop in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne�, 1881.

Engraving depicting Joseph Swan's combined battery-powered safety lamp and fire-damp indicator which gave just over 1 candle power for 10 hours. The...

Joseph Swan's combined battery-powered safety lamp.

Signed engraving of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan invented the incandescent electric lamp in Britain at about the same time as Thomas Edison patented it in...

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, scientist and inventor, c 1900.

Perspective painting of a whole hull model by Joseph Marshall, commissioned by King George III. In 1773, George III directed that plans for one of...

HMS Kingfisher, 1775.

Perspective painting of a whole hull model by Joseph Marshall, commissioned by King George III. In 1773, George III directed that plans for one of...

HMS Kingfisher, 1775.

The border of this hankerchief is made of artificial silk, based on cellulose nitrate. This artificial silk fibre was developed by the chemist and...

Early specimen of artificial silk, 1883.

The border of this hankerchief is made of artificial silk, based on cellulose nitrate, and is dated to c 1883. This artificial silk fibre was...

Early specimen of artificial silk, 1883.

Artificial silk is based on cellulose nitrate fibres, which were later to be known as 'viscose rayon'. It is made by adding cellulose to carbon...

Three patterned samples of artificial silk, c 1883.

In 1884 Legh Powell discovered a process for producing synthetic cellulose thread by dissolving cotton wool in concentrated and heated zinc chloride...

Bobbin of artificial silk produced by Legh Powell, 1885-1886.

This piece of fabric made from viscose rayon is associated with the chemist and physicist Sir Joseph Swan , a pioneer in artificial silk...

Piece of viscose rayon with a detailed flower design, c 1880s.

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was an English physicist and chemist. In 1860 he invented an electric lamp which anticipated that of Thomas Alva Edison by...

Two Ediswan type lamps, c 1890.

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan invented the incandescent electric lamp in Britain at about the same time as Thomas Edison patented it in the USA. He also...

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan , English scientist and inventor, late 19th century.

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan invented the incandescent electric lamp in Britain at about the same time as Thomas Edison patented it in the USA. He also...

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, scientist and inventor, c 1890-1900

These photographs, mass printed on bromide paper, were usually coloured by tinting through stencils cut out for each colour. Photographic postcards...

Portrait of a girl, tinted photographic postcard, c 1905.

Underhill, Low Fell, Gateshead, where Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, the great inventor, lived in 1869. It is where he carried out many early experiments on...

Underhill, Gateshead

Sir Joseph Swan the physicist and chemist. He patented the carbon process for photographic printing and also invented the first electric lamp.

Sir Joseph Swan

'Putney Bridge and Village from Fulham', c1750. The earliest painted picture of the the wooden bridge built by Thomas Phillips, carpenter to King...

'Putney Bridge and Village from Fulham', c1750.

Sir Joseph Swan , English physicist and chemist, 1911-1912. Swan invented the incandescent electric lamp in Britain at about the same time as Thomas...

Sir Joseph Swan (1828-1914), English physicist and chemist, 1911-1912.Artist: D Cameron-Swan

The Great Exhibition, Hyde Park, London, c1851, . The Crystal Palace, designed by Joseph Paxton as part of Prince Albert's Great Exhibition, was an...

The Great Exhibition, Hyde Park, London, c1851, (1888.).

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, scientist and inventor, c1900. Swan invented the incandescent electric lamp in Britain at about the same time as Thomas...

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, scientist and inventor, c1900.

The inventor of the first practical electric lamp, Sir Joseph Swan, .

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan , the English physicist chemist and inventor who patented the carbon process for photographic printing.

Sir Joseph Swan

Memorial fountain at Dublin to the late Sir Philip Crampton, surgeon-general of Her Majesty's forces, 1862. 'The fountain was designed by Mr. Joseph...

Memorial Fountain At Dublin To The Late Sir Philip Crampton...

Joseph Marcell attends the RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award Ceremony at The Swan, Shakespeare's Globe on May 8, 2022 in London, England.

RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award Ceremony

Joseph Marcell attends the RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award Ceremony at The Swan, Shakespeare's Globe on May 8, 2022 in London, England.

RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award Ceremony

Joseph Marcell attends the RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award Ceremony at The Swan, Shakespeare's Globe on May 8, 2022 in London, England.

RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award Ceremony

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