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Lewis Latimer is considered one of the 10 most important Black inventors of all time, not only for the sheer number of inventions created and patents secured but also for the magnitude of importance for his most famous discovery.
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As a young man, Lewis Latimer learned mechanical drawing while working for a Boston patent office. In 1880, he was hired by Hiram Maxim of the U.S. Electric Lighting Company to help develop a commercially viable electric lamp.
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www.energyquest.ca.gov/scientists/latimer.html
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Lewis Latimer invented the water closet for railroad cars - the electric lamp with an inexpensive carbon filament and a threaded wooden socket for light bulbs. ... Lewis Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts in 1848. He was the son of George and Rebecca Latimer, escaped slaves from Virginia.
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inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bllatimer.htm
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Lewis Howard Latimer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lewis Howard Latimer (September 4, 1848 – December 11, 1928) was an African American inventor and draftsman. Though Thomas Alva Edison and Joseph Swan are rightfully credited with the invention of th...
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Blueprint for Change is a source for reliable information on the life and work of Lewis H. Latimer ... Lewis Howard Latimer (1848-1928) was a man of extraordinary talent and character. A self-taught draftsman and inventor, he joined the Edison electrical companies in the mid-1880s and remained with them until the 1892...
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edison.rutgers.edu/latimer/blueprnt.htm
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Lewis Latimer, a Black pioneer of electric lighting ... The people fighting its demolition want to see it made into an historic memorial to black scientists and engineers -- and especially to Lewis Latimer, who lived his last twenty years in the house.
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www.uh.edu/engines/epi158.htm
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Lewis Latimer (1848–1928) invented an important part of the light bulb — the carbon filament. ... Fast Fact: Latimer worked in the laboratories of both Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell.
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After the Civil War ended, Lewis Latimer worked as an office boy for a patent company. A patent company receives information from inventors to prove they created their own original invention. If they have proof, they are awarded a patent from the government, which protects their invention from being copied.
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