investigations

Sound chap This Mr Swan...

"... Swan's demonstration of the light bulb at a lecture in Newcastle upon Tyne on 18 December 1878, before its invention by the American Thomas Edison ..." Now consider the idiocy of this. Swan demonstrated the light bulb, so he invented it. OK so the filament was a bit naff, and it was hard to achieve a good vacuum. Thomas Edison cannot have invented it AFTER Swan had already demonstrated it. Give Edison the credit for improving it, and creating a production line for its manufacture, but please, do not fall into that Transatlantic error of thinking Edison invented the light bulb. He did not.

Timothy Jones thanks. We've reworded the caption - we certainly don't believe it was Edison who invented the lightbulb!

query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F06E0DC1F3CE633A...

Another New York Times article on the 15th International Congress on Hygiene and Demography, opened 23 September 1912, in Washington, D.C. It seems most delegates arrived in New York City and did some touring. Quoting the 15 September 1912 article (link): Hundreds of European physicians will arrive here this week on their way to Washington to attend the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography, which opens on Sept. 23. Among the members are some 300 medical men from Germany, who will reach New York on the Cincinnati on Tuesday.

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Officer in charge of Oswestry fire station at that time was JE Jones who inspired me to a love of everything to do with the history of the fire service. See below image