Swan Light: A Novel

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Sprengel, Hermann (1865). "III. Researches on the vacuum". Journal of the Chemical Society. 18: 9–21. If you enjoy genuine, heartfelt characters, history, intrigue, and a tiny amount of romance, this book is for you. I have to say that I still love the premise of Swan Light with its dual timeline and the past slowly being linked with the present. I loved the lighthouse setting and I wish there would have been more descriptions of the Swan Light and the town itself... As it is, I don't think its potential was truly met. That said, I had mixed thoughts about both timelines. There were times where I much preferred the 1913 storyline, and Silvestre is without doubt the more interesting character of the two. There were other times the past storyline highly frustrated me though, and I was more interested in the present timeline with the diving angle and salvaging details. a b c Maury Klein, The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America, Bloomsbury Publishing USA— 2010, Chapter 9— The Cowbird, The Plugger, and the Dreamer Marine archaeologist Mari Adams’s attempts to fund her search for the notorious SS Californian are realized when she accepts a job to find the remains of Swan Light, rumored to have collapsed into the sea one hundred years ago. She teams up with salvager Julian Henry, and the pair unearth more than they bargained for in their search for the ruins. But when a group of treasure hunters threatens their mission, their hunt for the truth turns dangerous.

Obituary. Sir Kenneth Swan. Authority on Patents Law". The Times. No.58913. 20 October 1973. p.18. Gale CS322140495 . Retrieved 4 June 2021. The first private residence, other than the inventor's, lit by the new incandescent lamp was that of his friend, Sir William Armstrong at Cragside, near Rothbury, Northumberland. Swan personally supervised the installation there in December 1880. Swan had formed "The Swan Electric Light Company Ltd" with a factory at Benwell, Newcastle, and had established the first commercial manufacture of incandescent lightbulbs by the beginning of 1881. According to Harold H Schobert (" Energy and Society: An Introduction," CRC Press, 2014) the Voltaic Pile "made it possible for scientists to experiment with electric currents under controlled conditions" and furthered experiments with electricity. Not long after Volta presented his discovery of a continuous source of electricity to the Royal Society in London, Davy produced the world's first electric lamp by connecting voltaic piles to charcoal electrodes. Night Light - Porcelain Lithophane "Woodland Sunbeams",nature, forest, sunray themed plug in accent lightFriedel, Robert & Israel, Paul (2010). Edison's Electric Light: The Art of Invention (Reviseded.). The Johns Hopkins University Press. p.56. ISBN 978-0-8018-9482-4 . Retrieved 3 July 2018. First and foremost, thank you to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for giving me access to this ARC! The first ship to use Swan's invention was The City of Richmond, owned by the Inman Line. She was fitted with incandescent lamps in June 1881. The Royal Navy also introduced them to its ships soon after; with HMS Inflexible having the new lamps installed in the same year. [28] An early employment in engineering was during the digging of the Severn Tunnel, where the contractor Thomas Walker installed "20-candlepower lamps" in the temporary pilot tunnels. [29] In 1894, Swan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), [41] and in 1898 he was elected president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers; at the time, Swan was one of its three honorary members, the other two being Lord Kelvin and Henry Wilde. [9] In September 1901, he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) from Durham University. [42] He also served as president of the Society of Chemical Industry from 1900-1901, [43] and in 1903 he was chosen first president of the Faraday Society. [9] In 1904, he was knighted, [44] awarded the Royal Society's Hughes Medal, and made an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society. In 1906, he received the Albert medal of the Royal Society of Arts. [45]

The stunning cover with promises of a sweeping, emotional tale of the mysterious circumstances of a lighthouse, its keeper trying to save it, and present day divers tying to unravel the mystery of it all - just captured my salty heart the minute I laid eyes on it. ⁣ Swan was one of the early developers of the electric safety lamp for miners, exhibiting his first in Newcastle upon Tyne at the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers on 14 May 1881. [30] This required a wired supply, so the following year, he presented one with a battery [31] and other improved versions followed. [32] By 1886, a lamp with better light output than a flame safety lamp was in production by the Edison-Swan Company. [33] However, it suffered from problems of reliability and was not a success. It took development by others over the next 20 years or so before effective electric lamps were in common use. [34] Conjunction with Edison [ edit ] Edison & Swan United Electric Light Company, otherwise known as "Ediswan" In Nov. 1879, Edison filed a patent for an electric lamp with a carbon filament, according to the National Archives. The patent listed several materials that might be used for the filament, including cotton, linen and wood. Edison spent the next year finding the perfect filament for his new bulb, testing more than 6,000 plants to determine which material would burn the longest. Swan subsequently joined Mawson's, a firm of manufacturing chemists in Newcastle upon Tyne, started in the year of Swan's birth by John Mawson [4] (9 September 1819– 17 December 1867), the husband of his sister, Elizabeth Swan (22 November 1822– 2 August 1905). In 1846, Swan was offered a partnership at Mawson's. [4] This company subsequently existed as Mawson, Swan, and Morgan until 1973, formerly located on Grey Street in Newcastle upon Tyne, near Grey's Monument. The premises, now occupied by burger chain restaurant Byron, can be identified by a line of Victorian-style electric street lamps in front of the store on Grey Street.

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Thomas Edison's Patent Application for the Light Bulb (1880)". National Archives. 8 September 2021 . Retrieved 4 June 2023. he has been denied funding to save Swan Light by the local banking family unless he surrenders the light's deed to the bank...

Though Thomas Edison is credited as the man who invented the lightbulb, several inventors paved the way for him. Swan, J.W. On an improved electric safety lamp for miners Transactions, North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers 36 1886-7, 3–11 Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference Marriages". Newcastle Courant. 13 October 1871. p.8 . Retrieved 11 April 2021– via British Newspaper Archive. Thompson, Silvanus P. (1888). The development of the mercurial air-pump. London: E. & F.N. Spon. pp. 19.Swan K. R. Sir Joseph Swan and the Invention of the incandescent electric lamp. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1946 pp. 21–25 His house, Underhill, Low Fell, Gateshead, was the world's first to have working light bulbs installed. [16] The Lit & Phil Library in Westgate Road, Newcastle, was the first public room lit by electric light during a lecture by Swan on 20 October 1880. [17] [18] In 1881 he founded his own company, The Swan Electric Light Company, [19] and started commercial production. [20] Where Edison surpassed his competition was in developing a practical and inexpensive lightbulb, according to the DOE. Edison and his team of researchers tested more than 3,000 designs for bulbs between 1878 and 1880.

In 1850, English chemist Joseph Swan began trying to make electrical light more economical, and by 1860 he had developed a lightbulb that used carbonized paper filaments in place of those made of platinum, according to the BBC. Swan received a patent in the U.K. in 1878, and in February 1879 he demonstrated a working lamp in a lecture in Newcastle, England, according to the Smithsonian Institution. a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 434–435. ISBN 0-304-35730-8. Personalized White Swan Plush for Baby Girl or Boy, Swan With Crown Stuffed Animal, Flower Girl Custom Gift, Newborn Gift, First Birthday

I loved the thought put into the details- how the dog earned his name, the lighthouse being a character all on its own, the interwoven storylines- everything was just perfect!