Swan Light: A Novel

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Swan was born in 1828 at Pallion Hall in Bishopwearmouth (now Sunderland) Northumberland, England and he served an apprenticeship with a pharmacist there. Swan. J.W. Swan's electric light Transactions, North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers 30, 1881, 149–159 a b c d "Death Of Sir Joseph Swan". The Times. No.40535. 28 May 1914. p.12. Gale CS202441404 . Retrieved 4 June 2021. Swan first publicly demonstrated his incandescent carbon lamp at a lecture for the Newcastle upon Tyne Chemical Society on 18 December 1878. However, after burning with a bright light for some minutes in his laboratory, the lamp broke down owing to excessive current. On 17 January 1879 this lecture was successfully repeated with the lamp shown in actual operation; Swan had solved the problem of incandescent electric lighting by means of a vacuum lamp. On 3 February 1879 he publicly demonstrated a working lamp to an audience of over seven hundred people in the lecture theatre of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne, Sir William Armstrong of Cragside presiding. Swan turned his attention to producing a better carbon filament, and the means of attaching its ends. He devised a method of treating cotton to produce "parchmentised thread", and obtained British Patent 4933 on 27 November 1880. [15] From that time he began installing light bulbs in homes and landmarks in England.

The first private residence, other than the inventor's, lit by the new incandescent lamp was that of his friend, Sir William Armstrong at Cragside, near Rothbury, Northumberland. Swan personally supervised the installation there in December 1880. Swan had formed "The Swan Electric Light Company Ltd" with a factory at Benwell, Newcastle, and had established the first commercial manufacture of incandescent lightbulbs by the beginning of 1881. The Late Sir Joseph W. Swan". Newcastle Journal. 1 June 1914. p.2 . Retrieved 11 April 2021– via British Newspaper Archive. Swan, J.W. On an electric safety lamp, with portable secondary battery Transactions, North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers 31 1881-2, 117–9 Plumley, Jon. "Joseph Swan: Biography". www.kstc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 6 May 2017 . Retrieved 10 January 2018.This is a beautiful story about life defined by loss and the sense of a purpose it produces. It is also a story of love for family: the good as well as the misguided, and about the ways we honor those we love through memory and the preservation of their story. The plot is engaging and contains interesting historical facts. The author’s descriptions of Silvy’s and Mari’s observations and feelings about their surroundings are heartfelt and transporting. I loved joining Silvy in his quiet, everyday life, his love for his older brother, his memories, and his courage. I also loved that this novel fed into my fascination for lighthouses. Swan K. R. Sir Joseph Swan and the Invention of the incandescent electric lamp. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1946 pp. 21–25 The stunning cover with promises of a sweeping, emotional tale of the mysterious circumstances of a lighthouse, its keeper trying to save it, and present day divers tying to unravel the mystery of it all - just captured my salty heart the minute I laid eyes on it. ⁣

Friedel, Robert & Israel, Paul (2010). Edison's Electric Light: The Art of Invention (Reviseded.). The Johns Hopkins University Press. p.56. ISBN 978-0-8018-9482-4 . Retrieved 3 July 2018. Anderson, James B (2008). Sommerville, Iain (ed.). "Ships built by the Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd: arranged by date of launch". Welcome to Burntisland. Iain Sommerville . Retrieved 16 June 2011.

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In 1886, Ediswan moved production to a former jute mill at Ponders End, North London. [39] In 1916, Ediswan set up the UK's first radio thermionic valve factory at Ponders End. This area, with nearby Brimsdown subsequently developed as a centre for the manufacture of thermionic valves, cathode ray tubes, etc., and nearby parts of Enfield became an important centre of the electronics industry for much of the 20th century. Ediswan became part of British Thomson-Houston and Associated Electrical Industries (AEI) in the late 1920s. [40] Photography [ edit ] Stone tablet of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan in Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, on former Electricity Board building In 1945, the London Power Company commemorated Swan by naming a new 1,554 GRT coastal collier SS Sir Joseph Swan. [28] [46] Personal life [ edit ] a b c Maury Klein, The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America, Bloomsbury Publishing USA— 2010, Chapter 9— The Cowbird, The Plugger, and the Dreamer Scripps diver Mari Adams, about to lose funding on her current search for the sunken ship California... 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. [1] [2]