Engraving depicting Joseph Swan's combined battery-powered safety lamp and fire-damp indicator which gave just over 1 candle power for 10 hours. The...
Signed engraving of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan invented the incandescent electric lamp in Britain at about the same time as Thomas Edison patented it in...
Plate taken from 'La Lumiere Electrique' . Sir Joseph Wilson Swan , English scientist and inventor, invented the incandescent electric lamp in...
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was an English physicist and chemist. In 1860 he invented an electric lamp which anticipated that of Thomas Alva Edison by...
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan invented the incandescent electric lamp in Britain at about the same time as Thomas Edison patented it in the USA. He also...
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan invented the incandescent electric lamp in Britain at about the same time as Thomas Edison patented it in the USA. He also...
These photographs, mass printed on bromide paper, were usually coloured by tinting through stencils cut out for each colour. Photographic postcards...
Underhill, Low Fell, Gateshead, where Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, the great inventor, lived in 1869. It is where he carried out many early experiments on...
The Queen and Prince Philip held a dinner party for the Commonwealth Prime Ministers attending a conference at Buckingham Palace in London. Sir Dawda...
Joseph Wilson Swan, British physicist and chemist, demonstrating electromagnetism, 1889. Swan was the inventor of bromide paper for photography and...
The Ediswan Pointolite', c1916. The Edison and Swan Electric Light Company Limited was an English manufacturer of incandescent lamp bulbs and other...
The First Incandescent Electric Lamp, c1916. Early carbon and rod filament incandescent electric lamp 1878-9. Made by the English chemist, Joseph...
At White Sands, New Mexico, to observe V-2 bomb tests are left to right: Field Marshal Sir Maitland Wilson; Admiral D. C. Ramsey, USN; Col. Harold...
David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister, with some of his colleagues, 1917 . Among those featured are Walter Long, Sir Robert Borden, General...
Sir Joseph Swan , English physicist and chemist, 1911-1912. Swan invented the incandescent electric lamp in Britain at about the same time as Thomas...
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, scientist and inventor, c1900. Swan invented the incandescent electric lamp in Britain at about the same time as Thomas...
Advertisement for Ediswan incandescent light bulbs, 1898. The Ediswan brand was the result of a merging of the interests of the two pioneers of...
Joseph Wilson Swan, British physicist and chemist, demonstrating electromagnetism, 1889. Swan was the inventor of bromide paper for photography and...
Savoy Theatre, London, 1881. View of the interior of the Savoy Theatre with the house lit by Swan incandescent lamps. Joseph Wilson Swan invented an...
Joseph Wilson Swan, English chemist and physicist, c1880. Swan , pioneer of electric lighting and inventor of bromide photographic paper.
Street in Newcastle Upon Tyne lit by Swan incandescent electric lamps, 1883. In January 1879 Joseph Wilson Swan demonstrated his electric lamp in...
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan , the English physicist chemist and inventor who patented the carbon process for photographic printing.
March of Reform', 1833. William Cobbett; John Wilson Croker; John Gully; Joseph Pease; Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, 1st Baron St Leonards; Horace Twiss;...
Margaret McAvoy, An extraordinary Blind Girl', 1821. Portrait of Margaret M'Avoy who claimed she could sense colours 'through the medium of her...
An artist's impression of two phases in the assassination of British general and Unionist politician Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson outside...
Volunteer Reginald Dunne , one of the two men accused of the assassination of British general and Unionist politician Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes...
Volunteer Joseph O'Sullivan , one of two men accused of assassinating British general and Unionist politician Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson...
Presentation of Medals and awards by His Excellency The Governor of N.S.W. Sir Roden Cutler at Government House.Among the awards were Gallantry...
The Members of the New London School Board, L. Rev. J. R. Diggle , Marylebone. 2. Hon. E. L. Stanley, Marylebone. 3. Rev. C. J. Ridgeway, Marylebone....