Lewis latimer

The Lewis H. Latimer House is a modest Queen Anne-style, wood-frame suburban residence constructed between 1887 and 1889 by the Sexton family.

A bronze statue depicting prominent African-American inventor Lewis H. Latimer will remain outside the Margaret E. Morton government center in Bridgeport, Conn., after all. Facing

One of Latimer’s greatest inventions was the carbon filament, a vital component of the light bulb. His inventions didn’t stop there, working with Alexander Graham Bell, Latimer helped draft the patent for Bell’s design of the telephone. This genius also designed an improved railroad car bathroom and an early air conditioning unit

Lewis Latimer

Lewis Latimer

Born September 4, 1848, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Lewis Howard Latimer was one of a kind. Besides being an inventor, he was also a skilled draftsman, engineer, poet, musician, author as well as philanthropist. The son of fugitive slaves, Latimer’s parents fled to Boston, Massachusetts. His father, George Latimer, was however arrested and tried with the...

Latimer was born in 1848 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He joined the United States Navy at 15 and later received honorable discharge joined a patent law firm as a draftsman at 17. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell employed Latimer to draft the drawings required to receive a patent for Bell’s telephone. Although Thomas Edison is credited with the invention of the lightbulb, he made significant contributions to its further development. (Continued)

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