Posted on 09/04/2020 3:55:06 AM PDT by C19fan
Joe Biden on Thursday said that a black man created the light bulb, 'not a white guy named Edison' during a speech while in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Biden made the remark at the Grace Lutheran Church while speaking with community leaders after a private meeting with the family of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old father who was shot seven times in front of his children this month.
He traveled to the embattled city after President Trump made an appearance earlier this week, despite push back from local leaders and the Blake family refusing to meet with him.
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I agree.
So then by the same token would you say that claiming Edison invented the light bulb is an oversimplification not to mention false as well?
Yes he is right in that a Black man helped in creating the light bulb.
There has been lot of black history that I have learned in the last 10 years that I was not taught. I went to a Catholic all girl high school and had an excellent education.
First the movie “Rosewood”. Never knew about the town of Rosewood. Then the Tulsa Massacre- few years ago. The Green Book which blacks used to travel so they would know where they could eat, sleep, etc. The female Nasa employee’s in the movie “Hidden Figures”. Then the Sundown Towns in the south and even in the north, especially in Missouri where blacks were not allowed to be out after sundown.
I learned about the rape of Nanjing about 5 years ago during WW2. The Nanjing Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Imperial Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, then the capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Lot of history from all races untold...yet.
See 41 and click on the link.
Wikipedia:
“Lewis Latimer (1848-1928) received a patent on January 17, 1882 for the “Process of Manufacturing Carbons”, an improved method for the production of lightbulb carbon filaments.
“The Edison Electric Light Company in New York City hired Latimer in 1884, as a draftsman and an expert witness in patent litigation on electric lights. While at Edison, Latimer wrote the first book on electric lighting, Incandescent Electric Lighting and supervised the installation of public electric lights throughout New York, Philadelphia, Montreal, and London
When that company was combined in 1892 with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric, he continued to work in the legal department. In 1911, he became a patent consultant to law firms.”
See # 41.
I'll take that as a yes.
I find it ironic how Biden goes to WI and a black pastor prays over him as the next President and yet Biden is never confronted over his past racial remarks about black people.
No one questioned him over his “you aren’t black if you don’t vote Democrat”. Or this in 1977 “ that non-”orderly” racial integration policies would cause his children to “grow up in a racial jungle.” He then said: “Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions having built so high that it is going to explode at some point.”
Can you imagine President Trump having said that and the news calling him out on it?
A black GAY Muslim slave woman, with a degree in Gender Studies, who referred to itself as "xey".
You've got to get ALL the flavors together if you are going to appeal to the Retarded Diversity crowd.
These are Stupids, who write nonsense on the Web, and then blandly reference it as the Truth. "Shistory" is only as good as the latest thing written.
I think Joe screwed up again. He misread his statement. It should have read Thomas Edison was identifying as a gay black man the day he invented the light bulb. His handlers are pissed. How could anyone question the assertion he was identifying as a gay black? Joe’s misread now makes them look foolish.
The story of the light bulb begins long before Edison patented the first commercially successful bulb in 1879. In 1800, Italian inventor Alessandro Volta developed the first practical method of generating electricity, the voltaic pile. Made of alternating discs of zinc and copper — interspersed with layers of cardboards soaked in salt water — the pile conducted electricity when a copper wire was connected at either end. While actually a predecessor of the modern battery, Volta's glowing copper wire is also considered to be one of the earliest manifestations of incandescent lighting.
Not long after Volta presented his discovery of a continuous source of electricity to the Royal Society in London, Humphry Davy, an English chemist and inventor, produced the world's first electric lamp by connecting voltaic piles to charcoal electrodes. Davy's 1802 invention was known as an electric arc lamp, named for the bright arc of light emitted between its two carbon rods.
While Davy's arc lamp was certainly an improvement on Volta's stand-alone piles, it still wasn't a very practical source of lighting. This rudimentary lamp burned out quickly and was much too bright for use in a home or workspace. But the principles behind Davy's arc light were used throughout the 1800s in the development of many other electric lamps and bulbs.
In 1840, British scientist Warren de la Rue developed an efficiently designed light bulb using a coiled platinum filament in place of copper, but the high cost of platinum kept the bulb from becoming a commercial success. And in 1848, Englishman William Staite improved the longevity of conventional arc lamps by developing a clockwork mechanism that regulated the movement of the lamps’ quick-to-erode carbon rods. But the cost of the batteries used to power Staite’s lamps put a damper on the inventor's commercial ventures.
In 1850, English chemist Joseph Swan tackled the cost-effectiveness problem of previous inventors and by 1860 he had developed a light bulb that used carbonized paper filaments in place of ones made of platinum. Swan received a patent in the United Kingdom in 1878, and in February 1879 he demonstrated a working lamp in a lecture in Newcastle, England, according to the Smithsonian Institution. Like earlier renditions of the light bulb, Swan's filaments were placed in a vacuum tube to minimize their exposure to oxygen, extending their lifespan. Unfortunately for Swan, the vacuum pumps of his day were not efficient as they are now, and while his prototype worked well for a demonstration, it was impractical in actual use.
Edison realized that the problem with Swan's design was the filament. A thin filament with high electrical resistance would make a lamp practical because it would require only a little current to make it glow. He demonstrated his light bulb in December 1879. Swan incorporated the improvement into his light bulbs and founded an electrical lighting company in England. Edison sued for patent infringement, but Swan's patent was a strong claim, at least in the United Kingdom, and the two inventors eventually joined forces and formed Edison-Swan United, which became one of the world’s largest manufacturers of light bulbs, according to the Museum of Unnatural Mystery.
Swan wasn't the only competitor Edison faced. In 1874, Canadian inventors Henry Woodward and Matthew Evans filed a patent for an electric lamp with different-sized carbon rods held between electrodes in a glass cylinder filled with nitrogen. The pair tried, unsuccessfully, to commercialize their lamps but eventually sold their patent to Edison in 1879.
https://www.livescience.com/43424-who-invented-the-light-bulb.html
Nope.
Everyone knows it was the Russians who invented it. They invented the wheel as well, and were the first tow walk on the moon. Except the Chinese dispute that version..
Lincoln was a Vampire Killer, wasn’t he? The world of Hollyweird has its own history...
It has been a long time since I read a book about this, but IIRC, there were more than a few people trying to create a light bulb, but nobody could get the filament to last any length of meaningful time.
Edison was trying every single thing he could, and he had some kind of relationship with the railroads, where workers would get various plant samples for him from all over the country and get them delivered to him.
He rigorously catalogued and tested all kinds of different plant fibers.
Most people don’t know Edison did extensive work with radiation, but after his assistant died a horrible death as a result of radiation exposure, Edison stopped and never worked with it again.
Back in the day, they had a radiation source and would try various experiments with it which involved removing a leaded shutter to release the radiation. Edison was far enough away were he didn’t get the same exposure, but his assistant got massive radiation doses to his hands over a period of time, destroying the vasculature, and his hands became necrotic and had to be amputated. Then his forearms, then his arms, and he finally died.
Actual, the guys name was Latimer, helped Edison improve the filament. The light bible had been developed. There was also a Englishman whose time line was very close to Edison’s. But Edison had the light bulb before Latimer worked for Edison
It’s not just the left
The GOPe and talk radio also ascribe to the notion America and western civ are both beholden to racism and slavery as original sins
Those notions have arisen as corrosive tools to dismantle white first world culture as the non white world migrates to assimilate what was once the European settled world
How to destroy us with ourselves
It’s working and our leaders are all too eager
From Europe to Australia to here
What Saltmeat said.
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