Swan, JOSEPH WILSON, F.R.S., was born in Sunderland, 31st October 1828. Best known as the inventor of the incandescent electric lamp bearing his name, he was also an influential worker in photography. The carbon or autotype process, the dry-plate process, the Woodbury type process (with Mr Woodbury), and other photographic methods owe much to his inventive genius. He also devised a miner's electric safety-lamp. He was president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 1898-9.
Swan, JOSEPH WILSON, F.R.S.
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 828
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