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Incandescent Electric Light Bulb
Thomas Edison received such a patent, only to have it revoked, along with all of his other light-bulb patents, when it was discovered he had stolen the invention from the works of others.
Lewis Howard Latimer, the only African-American member of Thomas Edison's laboratory staff, patented a carbon filament for light bulbs.
Patents do not disclose the race of the inventors. Asking such a thing would make a person subject to suspicions of being a racist.
Thomas Edison. However, all of his light-bulb patents were revoked by the patent office when it was discovered he had stolen the ideas from other earlier inventors.
The incandescent light bulb,Another Answer:Actually Edison did NOT invent the Incandescent Light Bulb, he bought the original Patent, and then LATER improved the Filament, so that it become a longer lasting, more reliable product.
The incandescent light bulb,Another Answer:Actually Edison did NOT invent the Incandescent Light Bulb, he bought the original Patent, and then LATER improved the Filament, so that it become a longer lasting, more reliable product.
To provide light in a longer lasting and more effective way than a candle
The turn signal was invented by Percy Douglas-Hamilton. In 1907, he applied for a patent, which was received in 1909.
There are a considerable number of patents issued for extending the life of light bulbs; the first appears to be Ole Nillson's "Lamp Life Extender," number 4229680, issued in 1980. Improvements, however, started before the 1890s, well before Edison was stripped of all of his stolen light-bulb patents in 1893.
At the time of the light bulb's invention, the term of protection on a patent was 17 years.
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