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  2. Incandescent light bulb - Wikipedia

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    Historians Robert Friedel and Paul Israel list inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison of General Electric. [4]: 91–93 They conclude that Edison's version was the first practical implementation, able to outstrip the others because of a combination of four factors: an effective incandescent material; a vacuum higher than other implementations which was achieved ...

  3. Joseph Swan - Wikipedia

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    Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS (31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914) was an English physicist, chemist, and inventor.He is known as an independent early developer of a successful incandescent light bulb, and is the person responsible for developing and supplying the first incandescent lights used to illuminate homes and public buildings, including the Savoy Theatre, London, in 1881.

  4. Alexander Lodygin - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin, known after immigration to US as Alexandre de Lodyguine (Russian: Александр Николаевич Лодыгин; October 6, 1847 – March 16, 1923) was a Russian electrical engineer and inventor, one of the inventors of the incandescent light bulb. Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin was born in Stenshino ...

  5. James Bowman Lindsay - Wikipedia

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    Known for. Pioneer of Incandescent lighting and telegraphy. Scientific career. Institutions. Watt Institute. Dundee, Scotland. Signature. James Bowman Lindsay (8 September 1799 – 29 June 1862) was a Scottish inventor and writer. He is credited with early developments in several fields, such as incandescent lighting and telegraphy.

  6. John Wellington Starr - Wikipedia

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    John Wellington Starr. John Wellington Starr (1822? – November 21, 1846) was an American inventor and pioneer in development of the incandescent light bulb.

  7. Henry Woodward (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    Henry Woodward (inventor) Henry Woodward was a Canadian inventor and a major pioneer in the development of the incandescent lamp. [1] He was born in 1832. On July 24, 1874, Woodward and his partner, Mathew Evans, a hotel keeper, filed a Canadian patent application on an electric light bulb. [2][3] It was granted on August 3, 1874, as Canadian ...

  8. Thomas Edison - Wikipedia

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    To avoid a possible court battle with yet another competitor, Joseph Swan, who held an 1880 British patent on a similar incandescent electric lamp, [68] he and Swan formed a joint company called Ediswan to manufacture and market the invention in Britain. The incandescent light bulb patented by Edison also began to gain widespread popularity in ...

  9. William Joseph Hammer - Wikipedia

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    He was born in Cressona, Pennsylvania on February 26, 1858 to William Hammer (1827–1895) and Martha Augusta Beck (1827–1861). [1][2] He became a laboratory assistant to Thomas Edison in December 1879, and assisted in the development of the incandescent light bulb. [3] He became one of the world's earliest experts in electric power distribution.