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The incandescent light bulb was not invented by a single person. One of the early makers of light bulbs was Joseph Swan, who received a… | Instagram
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RS - ON THIS DAY | In 1879, Joseph Wilson Swan demonstrated the first practically usable incandescent filament electric light bulb to 700 people at the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle
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