Black inventors and entrepreneurs have played ... While Thomas Edison is credited with inventing the light bulb, Lewis ...

One of the earliest known African-American inventors, Lewis Latimer played a key role in the development of many modern innovations—including the light bulb. Latimer made the carbon filament of ...

The story of the lightbulb begins long before Edison patented the first commercially successful bulb in 1879. In 1800, Italian inventor ... In 1882, Lewis Howard Latimer, one of Edison's ...

Electric light ... Lewis Howard Latimer, a patent draftsman who had worked with Alexander Graham Bell at one time. Latimer would also play a big role in developing Edison’s carbon filament light ...