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Sir  Joseph  Wilson Swan 

 



Sunderland, Durham 31.October.1828- Warlingham, Surrey 27.May.1914

 



   



Bibliography

 
 

            
    1918  
  John Cameron Swan, His Family and Friends, 1827-1916,
Emily and Mary Swan, Headley Bros., Ashford, Kent, ca 1918, pp 41-51.




 

1929
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan F.R.S. - A Memoir, M.E.S. and K.R.S., Ernest Benn Limited,
London, 1929.




   

1929
Sir Joseph Swan's Electrical Work", J. Swinburne, Journal of the Institution of
Electrical Engineers,  Vol 67, 1929, pg 291.




 

1946
Sir Joseph Swan and the Invention of the Incandescent Electric Lamp, Kenneth R.
Swan, Longmans, Green and Co., New York, 1946.




 

1929
Brief Personal Recollections in Connection With the Jubilee of the Invention
of the Carbon  Incandescent Electric Lamp by Sir Joseph Wilson Swan  
in 1878", Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Vol 67, 1929, pg 293.




   

1968
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan F.R.S. - Inventor and Scientist, Mary E. Swan
and Kenneth R.  Swan, Oriel Press, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 1968.
 



   

1981
Swan's Way: Inventive Style and the Emergence of the Incandescent Lamp, G. Wise, Report No. 81CRD192,  
Aug 1981, Research and Development Applications Operation, General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY;
 material was also published in - Spectrum,  Vol 19, Apr 1982, pp 66-70, titled  "Swan's Way: A Study in Style."