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'DURING a series of experiments in Sunderland when he was ten years of age, he was put on a stool with a chain in his hand and made to deliver, from the tips of his fingers and the point of his nose, sparks from an electrical machine, " said The Northern Echo in an obituary in 1914.
"Before long he had made such a machine himself and he had injured himself in an attempt tomake hydrogen. But hemade coal gas from the kitchen fire with much happier results. " This child prodigy was Joseph Swan and, as you may have noticed on Tuesday in our business supplement when the clever people at Sedgefield's NetPark unveiled their paper-thin lighting technology, he illuminated our world most profoundly exactly 130 years ago.See the full content of this document
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The Light Fantastic
He invented the lightbulb. Without it, our lives would be extremely dull.
Joseph was born at Bishopwearmouth - near the Stadium of Light - ...See the full content of this document
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