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The story of Joseph Swan - the Sunderland genius who invented the light bulb, and battled the American Thomas Edison for the credit
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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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