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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)OJL/1/391
TitleKenneth R. Swan, Mary E. Swan
Extent2 items
Date1929
Description/1 Letter from Mary E. Swan to Oliver Lodge, written from Farleyside, Westerham, Kent, dated 19 October 1929. Swan thanks Lodge for championing her father (Joseph Swan) as inventor of the electric lamp in his radio talk on electric lighting.

/2 Letter from Kenneth R. Swan to Oliver Lodge, written from 13 Holland Park, W11, dated 19 October 1929. Swan thanks Lodge for saying in his radio talk that the carbon filament lamp was invented by his father, Joseph Swan, not Edison. He corrects Lodge on details of development of the filament.
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