First incandescent light bulb demonstrationIn 1879, the first practically usable incandescent filament electric light bulb was demonstrated to an audience of 700 by its inventor Joseph Wilson Swan at the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne. Following his successful demonstration, Swan established the world's first electric light bulb factory at Benwell in the western subburbs of Newcastle. Later, Swan's bulbs were used to light up Mosley Street in the Newcastle city centre, the first street in the world to be lit by electric light. By 1881, Swan had introduced his bulbs in London where 1,200 of them were used in the lighting the Savoy Theatre in front of an astonished audience. |
