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Description Joseph Swan
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Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (1828 - 1914), English chemist, inventor and industrialist. As well as inventing the dry plate photographic process, he gave his first successful demonstration of a light bulb in 1879. Within four years he was manufacturing 10,000 lamp bulbs a week, and in 1883, he amalgamated his business with Thomas Alva Edison to form the Edison and Swan Electric Company. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1874 and was knighted in 1904.
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