Joseph Swan

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS (31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914) was an English physicist, chemist, and inventor. He is known as an independent early developer of a successful incandescent light bulb, and is the person responsible for developing and supplying the first incandescent lights used to illuminate homes and public buildings, including the Savoy Theatre, London, in 1881.

For other people named Joseph Swan, see Joseph Swan (disambiguation).

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan

FRS
Photograph of Swan, circa 1900
Born
Joseph Wilson Swan

(1828-10-31)31 October 1828
Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, Tyne And Wear, England
Died27 May 1914(1914-05-27) (aged 85)
Warlingham, Surrey, England
NationalityBritish
Known forIncandescent light bulb
Photographic process
AwardsHughes Medal (1904)
Albert Medal (1906)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Chemistry

In 1904, Swan was knighted by King Edward VII, awarded the Royal Society's Hughes Medal, and was made an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society. He had received the highest decoration in France, the Legion of Honour, when he visited the 1881 International Exposition of Electricity, Paris. The exhibition included displays of his inventions, and the city was lit with his electric lighting.

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