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  <dc:title>Electric lamp by Joseph Wilson Swan</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Incandescent electric lamp, with glass vacuum tube and rod filament mounted horizontally in metal brackets, and a glazed mahogany display case. Brass plaque at the front inscribed: 'THE FIRST INCANDESCENT ELECTRIC LAMP. This was made in 1877 (circa) by Sir (then Mr) JOSEPH WILSON SWAN'</dc:description>
  <dc:date>c.1877</dc:date>
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