Matthew Evans is one of two Canadians who developed and patented an

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, on July 24, 1874, five years before

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's U.S. patent on the device. Evans, from

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, and his friend Henry Woodward, made the light bulb by sending electricity through a filament made of carbon. Evans was a hotelier.

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The First Electric Light Bulb
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