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Portrait of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan. Born at Sunderland 31st October 1828, Died at Warlingham 27th May 1914. inventor of the Incandescent Electric lamp, of a formula for the manufacture of collodion, which is still in use, of the photographic ' Autotype' process. and about seventy other miscellaneous inventions. Partner in the firms of Mawson and Swan, Moseley Street, Newcastle upon Tyne and Mawson, Swan and Morgan, Grey Street, Newcastle upon Tyne. -

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Uploaded on December 27, 2016
Taken sometime in 1914