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Description: | Joseph Wilson Swan was born on Oct. 31, 1828, in Sunderland. He came to Gateshead about 1845 to join John Mawson, his brother-in-law, who had a chemist's shop and chemical works in Newcastle. In 1860 Swan developed a primitive electric light bulb that used a filament of carbonised paper in an evacuated glass bulb. In 1869 he moved to Underhill, Low Fell. When working with wet photographic plates, he noticed that heat increased the sensitivity of the silver bromide emulsion. By 1871 he had devised a method of drying the wet plates, initiating the age of convenience in photography. Eight years later he patented bromide paper Joseph Swan he demonstrated his incandescent electric light bulb to an audience at the Newcastle Chemical Society on December 18 1878 Mosley Street in Newcastle was the first street in the world to be lit using incandescent electricity while Underhill in Gateshead was the first house in the world to be lit by electricity. Swan was knighted in 1904. He died on May 27, 1914, in Warlingham, Surrey. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.asaplive.com/Lco/Lco.cfm?ccs=629&cs=2674&Preview=1 | Publisher: | Gateshead Council | Rights holder: | Gateshed Council | Subjects: | Inventors Large Houses Chemical industry | Temporal: | name=Victorian; start=1837; end=1901; | Source: | iSee Gateshead | Identifier: | http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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