Posted on 09/04/2020 7:26:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Joe Biden, who claims he wants to fact-check Donald Trump in real time during the presidential debates, told a real whopper on Thursday during his visit to Kenosha.
“People fear that’s, which, that which is different. We gotta, for example, why in God’s name don’t we teach history in history classes? A black man invented the light bulb, not a white guy named Edison.”
Now Biden claims Edison didn’t invent the lightbulb. pic.twitter.com/ykQOFqjS0S
— Matt Margolis 🇺🇸 (@mattmargolis) September 4, 2020
Fact check: False.
Make no mistake about it, Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Joe Biden presumably was referring to Lewis H. Latimer, a former slave who worked as a researcher under Edison, who, three years after Edison patented the incandescent light bulb, patented a more efficient way of manufacturing carbon filaments, which were used in Edison’s bulb design. Fake internet rumors have been circulating for some time now suggesting that Latimer is the actual inventor of the light bulb and even the telephone.
Apparently, fake internet rumors are where Joe Biden gets his history lessons.
And the Left wonders why we don’t like them tearing down statues. When they’re not destroying history, they’re trying to rewrite it.
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I believe he got sued over that patent.
In your guts, you know Joe’s nuts.
I am thinking that Biden threw that line in to change the subject from the riots and his health.
Trump does this routinely, and no votes will change over this.
If Biden wins the presidency, this will be The Narrative in all American K-12 history books, with Edison’s name being purged everywhere, and tossed down the memory hole, his inventions ascribed to blacks, browns or Asians.
Give Latimer credit where credit is due, he did invent a better filament. However, he did NOT invent the light bulb. Man, anything for politics. Anything...
Edison bought patents to litigate against other inventors.
Oh , I thought he invented the Black Light
i don’t believe Edison invented the light bulb but developed the filament that was not only efficacious but economically feasible.
You're thinking of the crack pipe, sounds similar.
The light saber was invented in Wakanda.
That’s all fine, but what kind of racist nonsense is it to incite people with “Hey it wasn’t invented by that (evil stupid) white guy, it was a (better darker skinned) black dude”!
So he worked with Hiram Maxim? He should be held accountable for the death of millions killed by automatic weapons by liberal logic.
Yep. He was also employed by Edison for years after that.
BTW, Latimer, the son of a former slave, proves that one generation is enough for anyone who isn’t content to just keep doing what people have been doing.
People who kept on doing the same thing, if white or black, kept getting the same results year after year ... which is why the percentage of poorly educated dirt farmers to escape poverty remains low if white or black. But for those driven to step out and who wouldn’t be stopped even the real oppression of the past couldn’t keep them from getting ahead, or even getting rich.
This, I reason, is why Booker Washington apparently felt a particular distaste for blacks who made their living agitating over injustice ... for such people depend for their pay on folks doing exactly the same things that have failed them time and again so that they can call the consequences stuff like systemic racism.
You are correct. Electric light bulbs come in various types. Arc lamps, fluorescent, neon, etc. Electric light bulbs existed before Edison’s innovations, but weren’t really affordable or practical.
Now that is the perfect slogan!
Latimer was never a slave.
His parents had been slaves. They fled to Massachusetts and were protected by abolitionists.
I thought it was a joke when I heard it this morning, but then I saw the video of Biden looking senile while he wore a mask speaking in Wisconsin.
In 1880, after moving to Bridgeport, Connecticut, Latimer was hired as the assistant manager and draftsman for U.S. Electric Lighting Company owned by Hiram Maxim. Maxim was the chief rival to Thomas Edison, the man who invented the electric light bulb. The light was composed of a glass bulb which surrounded a carbon wire filament, generally made of bamboo, paper or thread. When the filament was burned inside of the bulb (which contained almost no air), it became so hot that it actually glowed.
Maxim greatly desired to improve on Edison’s light bulb and focused on the main weakness of Edison’s bulb – their short life span (generally only a few days.) Latimer set out to make a longer lasting bulb. Latimer devised a way of encasing the filament within an cardboard envelope which prevented the carbon from breaking and thereby provided a much longer life to the bulb and hence made the bulbs less expensive and more efficient. This enabled electric lighting to be installed within homes and throughout streets.
Latimer’s abilities in electric lighting became well known and soon he was sought after to continue to improve on incandescent lighting as well as arc lighting. Eventually, as more major cities began wiring their streets for electric lighting, Latimer was dispatched to lead the planning team. He helped to install the first electric plants in Philadelphia, New York City and Montreal and oversaw the installation of lighting in railroad stations, government building and major thoroughfares in Canada, New England and London.
So I guess one wonders who's version of history is correct.
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