Black Invention Myths Exposed - Volume Two - Lewis H. Latimer and the Light bulb

Описание: Let there be LIGHT! Lewis Latimer, in 1881, created the electric light commonly used today! Before Latimer's improvements, the light bulb had no practical use, because it would not give off light for an extended period of time.

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The real facts are presented here, in "Black Invention Myths Exposed - Volume II - Lewis Latimer".

Lewis Latimer invented the carbon filament in 1881 or 1882? No!

English chemist/physicist Joseph Swan experimented with a carbon-filament incandescent light all the way back in 1860, and by 1878 had developed a better design which he patented in Britain. On the other side of the Atlantic, Thomas Edison developed a successful carbon-filament bulb, receiving a patent for it (#223898) in January 1880, before Lewis Latimer did any work in electric lighting. From 1880 onward, countless patents were issued for innovations in filament design and manufacture (Edison himself had over 50 of them). Neither of Latimer's two filament-related patents in 1881 and 1882 were among the most important innovations, nor did they make the light bulb last longer, nor is there reason to believe they were adopted outside Hiram Maxim's company where Latimer worked at the time. (He was not hired by Edison's company until 1884, primarily as a draftsman and an expert witness in patent litigations).

Latimer also did not come up with the first screw socket for the light bulb OR the first book on electric lighting.

Latimer myths have been perpetuated for years, by many "scholars". Even such respected publications as MIT have made such erroneous claims in recent years.