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    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...
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  • and chemist, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan. In 2001, the school was awarded Specialist Technology College status. In April 2019, Joseph Swan Academy was taken...
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    sandstone in Victorian architectural style, it was the home of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan from 1869–1883, and is the first domestic property in the world to...
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    Archived from the original on 21 October 2016. R.C. Chirnside. Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS – The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne...
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    Elaine Loretta Sharpe in Harare. He is the great-great-grandson of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan. He attended junior and senior school in both Zimbabwe and South Africa...
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    photographs, was later used by numerous figures such as Josef Albert, Joseph Wilson Swan, Paul Pretsch and Charles Nègre to develop subsequent photographic...
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    (1831–1881), bicycle pioneer George Stephenson (1781–1848), engineer Joseph Wilson Swan (1823–1914), inventor of the light bulb Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875)...
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    December 1881 "Sir Joseph Wilson Swan". home.frognet.net. Archived from the original on 2011-05-10. Retrieved 2010-10-16. "Sir Joseph Swan, The Literary &...
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    common starting material. For their first workable electric lamps, Joseph Wilson Swan and Thomas Edison used carbon filaments made by pyrolysis of cotton...
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     628. "Sir Joseph Wilson Swan". home.frognet.net. Archived from the original on 10 May 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2010. "Sir Joseph Swan, The Literary...
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