WAIT, What? - You might wanna know the details! The common coupling of Swan's name with that of Edison in connection with the incandescent electric lamp has often led to the notion
RS - ON THIS DAY | In 1879, Joseph Wilson Swan demonstrated the first practically usable incandescent filament electric light bulb to 700 people at the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle
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