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Electric filament lamps made by Swan (left) and Edison (right), 1878-1879. The lamp on the left is an early carbon and rod filament incandescent electric lamp made by the English chemist, Joseph Swan (1827-1914) in 1878-1879. The lamp on the right, made by the American physicist, Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), has a single loop of carbon which glowed when a current flowed through it.
Location
Science Museum/London/Great Britain
Unique Identifier
ART438882
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Purpose
Public
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3504px × 2789px
Photo Credit
SSPL/Science Museum / Art Resource, NY
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19th century CE
American
Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931)
English
Lightbulb