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Also Known As Sir Joseph Wilson Swan
Born October 31, 1828 • Sunderland • England
Died May 27, 1914 (aged 85) • England
Inventions dry plate • incandescent lamp

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Joseph Swan, pencil drawing by M. Agnes Cohen, 1894; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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