Joseph Swan

Background

An English physicist and chemist.

Contribution

Developed and demonstrated a working incandescent lamp in Britain around the same time as Edison; the two merged interests in the UK as Ediswan.

Associated inventions

• The Incandescent Lamp

Collaborators & contemporaries

• Thomas Edison
• Lewis Latimer

Sources & further reading

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• Encyclopædia Britannica — technology & biography topic articlesEncyclopædia Britannica · Encyclopedia
• Science Museum Group Collection & topic articlesScience Museum Group (UK) · Museum

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