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Lewis Latimer was Edison's as well as Alexander Graham Bell's Assistant, having drawn up the plans for the telephone that Bell, an audiologist, invented.

Latimer also came up with the substance used in the filament of Edison's successful version of the Incandescent Light Bulb and wrote the original manual for electrical distribution, but was barred, in the 1870's through the 1920's until admitted then to the EDISON PIONEERS......

Mr. Latimer was born September 4, 1848 in Chelsea, Massachusetts and died on December 11, 1928 in New York City, New York.

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