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Joseph Wilson Swan, British physicist and chemist, demonstrating electromagnetism, 1889. Artist: Unknown.
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Title:
Joseph Wilson Swan, British physicist and chemist, demonstrating electromagnetism, 1889. Artist: Unknown.
Caption:
Joseph Wilson Swan, British physicist and chemist, demonstrating electromagnetism, 1889. Swan (1828-1914) was the inventor of bromide paper for photography and of an incandescent light bulb. He is shown here at a Royal Society Conversazione, on 8 May 1889, demonstrating that a metal ring wound with a coil of wire rotates in the Earth's magnetic field when a small electric current is applied. From The Illustrated London News. (London, 1889). (Colorised black and white print).
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Image size:
3744 x 4661 px | 49.9 MB
Print size:
31.7 x 39.5 cm | 12.5 x 15.5 in (300 dpi)
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