Joseph Wilson Swan F.R.S.

SirJoseph Wilson Swan ( 1828 - 1914 ) with Fleming and Dewar

Location: Edison Lamp Works, Ponders End, Enfield

Unveiled: 10 June 2004 by ? IOP Branch London

born: 31 October 1828 Sunderland

died: 27 May 1914 Warlingham Surrey

He was a manufacturing chemist who patented Bromide paper for photograhy. In 1860 he invented an elecric lamp nearly 20 years before Edison and worked on improving filaments. He was the first to produce a practicable artificial silk.

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