Joseph Wilson Swan
1828-1914
British chemist and inventor who invented a primitive electric lamp (1860) and the carbonfilament incandescent lightbulb (1880), which he developed independently of Thomas...
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After serving as a pharmacist's apprentice, Swan became a partner in a chemical firm that manufactured photographic plates. At that time, one of the most difficult steps in the production of photograp...
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Joseph Wilson Swan
Joseph Swan