Edison — February 11, 1847, Milan, OH
Latimer— September 4, 1848, Chelsea, Massachusetts,
In response to: “He wasn’t even born when the first electric lighting was demonstrated.”, Fireman15
Humphry Davy demonstrated the carbon arc around 1805, the first practical electric light. So your point is???
Latimer was employed as a “patent draftsman” this meant that he drew the pictures that illustrated other people's patents and he also illustrated books.
I am sure that he was a talented guy and contributed to a number of cutting edge products of his time, but more likely as a team member and not a lone wolf as the revisionists are now trying to portray. A friend of mine worked for NASA in the Apollo program as an engineer. HIs name appears in a number of patents but since he was not a black guy we probably will not hear some time down the road that he was responsible for puting a man on the moon.