Black History Month 2013: Do you know these African American inventors?

Black History Month 2013: Do you know these African American inventors? Lewis Latimer

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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