some books said that he was a black that started it than Thomas finishes the job.
Lewis Latimer was a black inventor. He improved upon the light bulb making it electric. Those light bulbs were then used in street lights.
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He is the man who invented cigarettes.
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793.
No. The electric light, one of the everyday conveniences that most affects our lives, was invented in 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison. BUT Lewis Latimer improved it...
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Edison did not invent the first electric light bulb, but instead invented the first commercially practical incandescent light. He therefore just improved on other peoples work.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thomas Edison invented the light bulb because people needed it to see in the dark and so he could become a successful man.
Lewis Latimer was a black inventor. He improved upon the light bulb making it electric. Those light bulbs were then used in street lights.
Barbershop - 2005 A Black Man Invented the Stop Light 1-6 was released on: USA: 18 September 2005
According to some historical sources the man Henricq Global invented an incandescent light bulb about 1854.
Thomas Edison did not invent the lightbulb. The lightbulb was first created by a Belgian man named Jobard in 1835 and Frederick de Moleyns obtained the first patent for such a bulb in 1841. Thomas Edison invented an improved version of the bulb in 1879.
Well, It was not a black man who invented the 'Toilet' The man who inveted the 'Flushing Toiled' Was 'Thomas Crapper'
No American, native or otherwise, invited the light bulb. The first electric light was made in 1800 by Humphry Davy, an English scientist. The impression that Edison invented the lightbulb is in error but it is popularized by movies like Edison, the Man - a 1940 biographical film depicting the life of inventor Thomas Edison, who was played by Spencer Tracy.
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Lewis Howard Latimer is the black man you're probably referring to. He invented the "carbon" light bulb filament, his filaments solved the light-bulb's problem of burning out after just a few hours, and was a major contribution to the industry.
Natural=Sun Manmade=light bulb.