biography
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Swan, Sir Joseph (Wilson)
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| lived:
| (1828–1914)
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| biography:
| Physicist and chemist, born in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, NE England, UK. He became a manufacturing chemist, patented the carbon process for photographic printing in 1864, and invented the dry plate (1871) and bromide paper (1879). In 1860 he invented an electric lamp which anticipated Edison's by 20 years, and in 1879 demonstrated a lamp which considerably improved on Edison's patent model. He was the first to produce practicable artificial silk. |
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