Lewis howard 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.

Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison, Hiram S. Maxim and Lewis Howard Latimer. These four men were the greatest inventors and innovators of their day. They were all born in the late 1840s, and came into their own as self-educated inventors after the Civil War. They were responsible for two of the most important inventions...

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

Lewis Latimer

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Lewis Latimer participated in the development of two major inventions: the light bulb and the telephone. Learn about this noted 19th-century inventor.

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)

Lamp-fixture Patent from Lewis Howard Latimer. Mar 21,1882