Lewis Howard Latimer worked for Thomas Edison and drew patent diagrams for Alexander Graham ... success,” according to Rayvon Fouché’s book “Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation.” ...

He invented an improved book supporter that kept books upright on shelves ... In 1911, the Board of Patent Control dissolved. Lewis Latimer once again found himself without a job, and no prospects.

He soon bought a set of secondhand tools and books, and practiced ... his firm was working on patents for Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone, and Lewis Latimer was drafting all the technical ...

We’re interrupting your regularly scheduled programming on gentrification to bring you this Black History Month profile on Lewis H ... and London. Latimer holds the patents for the electric ...

Lewis Latimer, Fortune responds ... In 1884, he began defending Thomas Edison’s patents as an expert witness and later wrote a seminal book, “Incandescent Electric Lighting: A Practical ...

But chances are you don’t know Lewis Latimer ... Working in a Boston patent office in the 1870s, Latimer labored alongside Bell, drawing blueprints for the telephone and eventually preparing ...

As far as we know, Edison did invent the light bulb, but a Black inventor named Lewis ... design. Latimer created a light bulb with a more durable filament made of carbon. He sold the patent ...

Lewis H. Latimer should come to mind ... Despite having no formal education, Latimer became a chief draftsman, patent expert, and inventor with seven of his own patented inventions.

Despite having no formal education, Latimer became a chief draftsman, patent expert ... After months of renovation, The Lewis Latimer House Museum (LLHM) reopened in time for Juneteenth this ...

As far as we know, Edison did invent the light bulb, but a Black inventor named Lewis ... design. Latimer created a light bulb with a more durable filament made of carbon. He sold the patent ...