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| quote: | Originally posted by Mosaic
re-read your earlier post.
Henry Woodward and Matthew Evans PATENTED the LIGHTBULB
I know the English created the first electric light, but we were talking about patenting the lightbulb 
OH well, the lightbulb was really an international project with help from everyone |
The first electric light was english.
Many other people were designing electric lights, none of which would last any length of time, and would be far too expensive to be used.
In 1854 a German watchmaker called Henricg Globel invented the first electric light inside a bulb, using a carbonised bamboo filament. This light bulb would not last long before burning out and was therefore not viable.
21 years later, in 1875 Henry Woodward and Matthew Evans patented a light bulb, which I'm assuming burned out quickly and therefore wasn't viable, so they sold the patent to Thomas Edison.
In 1878, British inventor, Joseph Swan invented the first light bulb that would last any length of time, and would therefore be commercially viable. He patents his design in Britain.
The following year 1879, Thomas Edison has finished his work on the Woodward and Evans bulb, and had experimented with it until it became practical, he patents in the USA.
Some time later Joseph Swan successfully sues Thomas Edison, and is awarded part of General Electric.
So what did these Canadian inventors invent??
They didn’t invent the first electric light, that was an English invention. They didn’t even invent the first light bulb, that was German, and they didn’t even invent the first commercially practical light bulb either (English).
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