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1878 Invented the Lane-Fox system of electric lighting (using small incandescent lamps in parallel) and took out a patent on it which was one of the first in that field.
1878 Invented the Lane-Fox system of electric lighting (using small incandescent lamps in parallel) and took out a patent on it which was one of the first in that field.


1878 Wrote a detailed letter to ''The Times'' making a case for public electricity supply by comparison with the well-known gas supply<ref>The Times, Dec 26, 1878</ref>
1912 Mr Campbell-Swinton remarked at the Royal Institution that Fox Pitt was "the first to imagine, or at least patent, a public electricity supply to all and sundry."   
1912 Mr Campbell-Swinton remarked at the Royal Institution that Fox Pitt was "the first to imagine, or at least patent, a public electricity supply to all and sundry."   


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Pioneer of electric lighting, otherwise known as George Lane-Fox

1856 Born in Malta; second son of Lieut-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers and his wife Alice

1877 Invented an electrical device for lighting public gas lamps[1].

1878 Invented the Lane-Fox system of electric lighting (using small incandescent lamps in parallel) and took out a patent on it which was one of the first in that field.

1878 Wrote a detailed letter to The Times making a case for public electricity supply by comparison with the well-known gas supply[2]

1912 Mr Campbell-Swinton remarked at the Royal Institution that Fox Pitt was "the first to imagine, or at least patent, a public electricity supply to all and sundry."

1932 Died at home in London

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ The Times Dec 04, 1877
  2. ↑ The Times, Dec 26, 1878
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