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Sir Joseph Wilson Swan 1828 - 1914

occupation:
Chemist,
Inventor
Nationality:
British; English
born in:
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom

invented an incandescent lamp and demonstrated it on 18 December 1878

patented his lamp 27 November 1880 (patent No. 4933)

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