Joseph Wilson Swan
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| Naixement | 31 octubre 1828  Sunderland (Anglaterra) | ||
| Mort | 27 maig 1914 (85 anys) Surrey (Anglaterra) | ||
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| Camp de treball | Física i química | ||
| Ocupació | químic, físic, inventor | ||
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Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (31 d'octubre de 1828, Sunderland - 27 de maig de 1914 a Warlingham, Surrey) fou un electricista i un químic britànic.[1][2][3]
Invents
[modifica]- El 1878 va inventar la làmpada incandescent amb un filament de carbó, que tot seguit va millorar i patentar, amb un filament de bambú, Thomas Alva Edison.[4]
- El 1879 va inventar i patentar el sistema el paper fotogràfic amb bromur de plata (AgBr).[5]
Premis
[modifica]Referències
[modifica]- ↑ Kenneth E. Hendrickson III. The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History. 3. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, p. 564. ISBN 978-0810888876. OCLC 869343342.
- ↑ Williams, Hywel. Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005, p. 434–435. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑ «Pharmacy — the mother of invention? — Sir Joseph Swan (1828–1914)». RPSGB.org.uk. Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB). Arxivat de l'original el 24 September 2006. [Consulta: 11 gener 2010]. «Swan made groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of electric lighting and photography. He had already received the Legion of Honour when he visited an international exhibition in Paris in 1881. The exhibition included exhibits of his inventions, and the city was lit with electric light, thanks to Swan's invention.»
- ↑ Maury Klein, The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America, Bloomsbury Publishing USA — 2010, Chapter 9 — The Cowbird, The Plugger, and the Dreamer
- ↑ «Joseph Swan». Encyclopedia Britannica.
- ↑ Shaw, Wm. A.. The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day of the Knights of All the Orders of Chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of the Knights Bachelors. 2. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1971, p. 419. OCLC 247620448.