The Story of a Great Inventor
Just over 100 years ago - on 3 February 1879 in the 'Lit and Phil' in Newcastle - Joseph Swan gave the first successful demonstration in the world of an incandescent electric lamp bulb.
His invention, in a house in Low Fell, Gateshead, led to the international development of the electric lighting we take for granted today. Yet, even at the time, his fame was eclipsed by the more extrovert personality of his American rival Thomas Edison.
Tonight's documentary celebrates the unsung genius of the Sunder-land-born scientist and inventor, whose natural modesty has too often denied him the place in the history-books he deserved. with Alan Meadows as Swan Narrator
PETER WHEELER
Written and produced by ROGER BURGESS
Director PHILLIP PRIDE