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Henry Woodward

Inventor of the first Incandescent Lamp

(lightbulb)

Mathew Evans

Matthew Evans was Henry's assistant during

the making of the light bulb. At the time Matthew

was the keeper of a hotel in downtown Toronto.

There is no picture of him.

Thomas Edison

The man who developed the

lightbulb.

Childhood

Henry Woodward was born on May 16, 1858.

He had two younger brothers and an older

sister. His mother and father, Marc and Lucy

Woodward loved Henry very much and encouraged

him into doing whatever he wanted to do when he

was older. When Henry was six years old, his father

Marc died from Respiratory cancer. He always told

Henry to never give up and to fulfill his dreams.

Beginning of career

After graduating from high school, Henry later

became a student at the University Of Toronto

studying to be a medic in his future career.

Henry and his next door neighbor Matthew Evans

were best friends and loved to experiment on

things. One of they're successful experiments was when they were trying to create a spark by connecting

an Induction Coil to a smee battery.

Induction Coil

Smee Battery

The experiment

What happened was the Smee Battery started to make the Induction Coil buzz when they connected them together. It then in an instant sparked. They had now noticed that right in front of they're eyes there was a new career.

The Making Of The Invention

Once they noticed that they had just

made a huge discovery, they then were

granted a canadian patent for the invention.

After they made the invention they didn't

have enough money to develop it so they

later sold the patent to Thomas Edison for

5,000 dollars."100,000 dollars in our time".

Thomas later finished the lightbulb and then

made it usable. It was then shipped all over

the world. That is why everyone thinks that

Thomas Edison was the man who invented

the light bulb but was really just the one who

developed it.

Henry Woodwards patent on the device.

Before Henry

Before Henry they're were two men

Joseph Swan, and Jhon Starr. They

were the ones who made the blueprints

and actually made the patent. But they

just didn't know how to make the spark

happen to power up the lightbulb. So

they both gave up on it.

The Incandescent Lamp

Death

Henry later died in 1917

Death

There is no recorded date of when

Matthew Evans died.

Death

Thomas Edison later died on October 18, 1931.

By: Joseph Valtas

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