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Manufacturer Details - Ediswan

Ediswan, the trade name of the Edison and Swan United Electric Light Company Limited, made this valve for Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd. Joseph Swan, a Briton, and Thomas Edison, the famous American inventor jointly founded the company, as a result of the major court battle they fought over who was the original inventor of the electric light bulb. The company produced all the Marconi valves up to 1919 and manufactured them at their factory in Ponders End, North London.

Some Ediswan valves were marked 'Royal Ediswan' up to 1923.

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