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4 photographs supplied by the Science Museum in London, titled: 'Handkerchief edged with Artificial silk made by Swan 1884'

SWAN/06/02
File
Date of artifical silk 1884. Date of photographs unknown.

Part of Swan (Sir Joseph) Archive

5 photographs supplied by the Science Museum in London, titled: 'Early specimen of Artificial silk made by Sir Joseph Swan'

SWAN/06/03
File
Date of artifical silk 1884. Date of photographs unknown.

Part of Swan (Sir Joseph) Archive

Assumed to be an attempt to print a photograph, not visible.

SWAN/04/33
File
presumed to be 1860s - 1870s

Part of Swan (Sir Joseph) Archive

Assumed to be an attempt to print a photograph, not visible.

SWAN/04/30
File
presumed to be 1860s - 1870s

Part of Swan (Sir Joseph) Archive

A single print which appears to have been part of a processing experiment. Handwritten on the back of the photograph: "Treated with [?] of copper."

Certificates and Medals

SWAN/08
Series
1881-1914

Part of Swan (Sir Joseph) Archive

A collection of certificates and medals awarded to Sir Joseph Swan during his lifetime.

Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur, 1881.

SWAN/08/01
Item
1881

Part of Swan (Sir Joseph) Archive

Joseph Swan was awarded Chevalier de la d’Honneur (The Legion of Honour) for his invention of the electric light bulb, after showing it in an exhibition in Paris in 1881. The Legion of Honour was the was highest decoration (award) in France.

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