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Swan's Supervision of Installation

When: December 1880
Where: Installation site not named in cited passages
Part of: Savoy Theatre opens, first public building fully lit by electricity

Joseph Swan personally supervised an electrical installation in December 1880, prior to the Savoy's opening; the cited passages do not name the venue.

Swan, who had established commercial manufacture of incandescent bulbs by early 1881, personally supervised an installation in December 1880. The cited passages do not state that this supervision occurred at the Savoy Theatre, nor that it ensured the front-of-house was electrically lit.

Sources

Joseph Swan Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-14

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