Swan Light: A Novel

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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. In 1945, the London Power Company commemorated Swan by naming a new 1,554 GRT coastal collier SS Sir Joseph Swan. [28] [46] Personal life [ edit ] As past and present collide, the secrets hiding on the ocean floor begin to surface. Can Mari find the answers she is looking for—and at what price? 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] Swan is now in his 80s and trying to save his lighthouse/home from sliding off the bluff into the sea...

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. Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS (31 October 1828– 27 May 1914) was an English physicist, chemist, and inventor. He is known as an independent early developer of a successful incandescent light bulb, and is the person responsible for developing and supplying the first incandescent lights used to illuminate homes and public buildings, including the Savoy Theatre, London, in 1881. [1] [2] Tale of tragedy behind the triumphs of Joseph Swan". The Journal. 11 December 2016. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016 . Retrieved 11 December 2016.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]

Silvestre (Silvy) Swan is in his lighthouse reflecting on his upbringing in the seaside village of Norman Cliffs along with four other children... Joseph Wilson Swan was born in 1828 at Pallion Hall in Pallion, in the Parish of Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland, County Durham. His parents were John Swan and Isabella Cameron. [5] 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. Plumley, Jon. "Joseph Swan: Biography". www.kstc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 6 May 2017 . Retrieved 10 January 2018.Pam, D. (1977), The New Enfield: Stories of Enfield Edmonton and Southgate, a Jubilee History, London Borough of Enfield Libraries, Arts & Entertainment Dept Sprengel, Hermann (1865). "III. Researches on the vacuum". Journal of the Chemical Society. 18: 9–21. Scripps diver Mari Adams, about to lose funding on her current search for the sunken ship California... 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! Friedel, 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.