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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> | 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> | ||
1881 Demonstration of electric lighting using incandescent lamps which was "almost identical" to those [[Thomas Edison|Mr Edison]], [[Joseph Swan|Mr Swan]] and [[Hiram Stevens Maxim|Mr Maxim]] | |||
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]
1881 Demonstration of electric lighting using incandescent lamps which was "almost identical" to those Mr Edison, Mr Swan and Mr Maxim
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