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...
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.
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.
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.
What’s the difference between a 40W light bulb and Biden?
Coming next: Sally Hemings was the real author of the Declaration of Independence.
Note: Biden did NOT say anything about Latimer.
His exact words were “Some Black guy”.
This is a racist speaking. Didn’t even bother to learn the name of a famous black inventor. Just “Some Black guy”.
If he had given the guy’s name, at least he would have been helping educate people, as frankly, most people do NOT know about Lewis Latimer, and he was a pretty famous inventor.
Latimer is a true US success story. I take nothing away from him. With his involvement with the Union Army’s veteran groups, I wonder if it can be learned that he was a registered republican?