Joseph Swan patented, started manufacturing and selling his bulbs - in 1880. The first bulbs lasted little more than 12 hours but, unlike gas lamps, there was no flame or dirty smoke and they soon caught on.

Mosley Street in Newcastle-upon-Tyne was the first street in Britain to be lit by electric bulbs...

On 18 December 1878 Swan grabbed the headlines with a demonstration in Newcastle.  By turning down 70 gas jets and replacing them with the calm and constant light of his bulbs, but he did not receive a patent until 27 November 1880 after improvement to the original lamp. His house (in Gateshead, England) was the first in the world to be lit by light bulb, and the world's first electric-light illumination in a public building was for a lecture Swan gave in 1880. In 1881, the Savoy Theatre in the City of Westminster, London, was lit by Swan incandescent light bulbs, the first theatre and the first public building in the world to be lit entirely by electricity.

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