A black man did patent the process to create carbon filaments which actually made the light bulb practical. And he did work for Edison. So Biden is kinda sorta partly almost right.
Talking about Biden shows that the public is falling for the oldest trick in the book. Read the ART of WAR. Deception.
Keeps the public from seeing that New World Order is taking over. Look at Kam instead as she will be in charge within 2 weeks of election and have Peloski as her VP
Something I never knew, though. Interesting bit of knowledge, notwithstanding that Joe scrambles the details.
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.
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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.
“A black man did patent the process to create carbon filaments which actually made the light bulb practical. And he did work for Edison. So Biden is kinda sorta partly almost right.”
Actually Latimer patented a method for IMPROVING carbon filaments, he didn’t invent them. He also patented an improved bathroom for railroad cars. Does that mean he invented the toilet?
Actually, I think a couple of Canadians invented the light bulb and then patented it in Canada. They couldn’t figure out how to commercialize it and sold their stuff to Edison. The Canadians did this before the black man did, in the early to mid 1870s.
I suspect Biden may have unintentionally been hinting that Edison was racist because he stole a black man’s idea.
The fact that the black man owned the patent instead of Edison is pretty telling, in my mind.
Every time they cite a black person who made an important contribution it should be turned back on them by using that fact to point out that black Americans have been instrumental in America’s success throughout its’ history. Use these facts to squelch their “America is inherently racist, and all blacks were nothing but slaves” narrative. I’ve been using this in personal conversations, and it leaves libs speechless when they realize how wrong their black victimhood “history” is.
I especially love telling them about the many wealthy blacks in colonial times, including over 3,000 who were slave OWNERS. That causes their little pea brains to melt.