Mathew Evans

For other people with similar names, see Matthew Evans (disambiguation).

Matthew Evans is one of two Canadians who developed and patented an incandescent light bulb, on July 24, 1874, five years before Thomas Alva Edison's U.S. patent on the device.

A portion of the 1874 actual patent application.

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

External links

• The First Electric Light Bulb