Sunderland inventor Joseph Swan was possibly the greatest genius that Wearside ever produced. If you’ve been kept in the dark about the development of the light bulb and Joseph’s gift to the ...

It’s painful to cast aspersions on the reputation of one of America’s heroes, but Edison, who patented his bulb in 1879, merely improved on a design that British inventor Joseph Swan had ...

1878: __Joseph Swan demonstrates the electric lamp to the Newcastle Chemical Society in northern England. The incandescent light bulb has become synonymous with Thomas Edison. But Swan was the ...

Joseph Swan, a British chemist and physicist ... Edison carbon filament light bulbs from the early 1880s Independently of Swan, in 1878 Thomas Edison also began experimenting with incandescent ...

ONE of the most important developments in the history of modern life took place in the North East, namely the development of electric light. The most important figure of this historical ...

Alessandro Volta, Humphrey Davy and Joseph Swan played ... behind Davy's arc light were used throughout the 1800s in the development of many other electric lamps and bulbs. In 1840, British ...

The RSC will, next Tuesday, commemorate the first demonstration of the light bulb "on stage" in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1879, when the great, but much-overlooked, polymath Joseph Swan disclosed that he ...

This video explores the creation of the first light bulbs invented by Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan. The creator highlights Edison's electric lamp patent, providing a clearer transcription of it ...

In the second of his new columns about physics in industry, James McKenzie looks at the lessons we can learn from the humble light bulb Battle of the bulbs: Joseph Swan's light (right) never proved as ...

Farewell, traditional light bulb. As the clock strikes midnight ... William Sawyer, Albon Man, Joseph Swan, and, of course, Thomas Edison, the Energy Department notes. While, unlike President ...

The most important figure of this historical development was the Sunderland born Joseph Swan, inventor of the first practical light bulb whose invention would result in the widespread use of ...