A black man invented the light bulb says Biden

[rayg]

Joe Biden said a black man invented the light bulb, 'not a white guy named [Thomas] Edison' on Thursday

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-Edison.html

[Gun Smoke]

Brain dead Joe probably heard the expression "black light" and figured?

Everyone knows Al Gore invented the light bulb.

[togor]

Latimer was in many ways like Edison himself, a tinkerer willing to try things. The article does an adequate job of explaining Latimer's relation to Edison and his contributions.

Edison was known to sometimes take singular credit for the work of a team, but then again he should get credit for assembling a team, and not letting skin color be an issue.

In the Natural History museum in DC there's an exhibit on sound recording, early research. Guys were trying all kinds of things to capture and reproduce sound. Then the Edison phonograph comes along, these wax cylinders with a stylus. Just blew everyone away. There's a practical brilliance there.

On the other hand, Edison stayed invested in DC power distribution, when Alternating current was clearly superior.

Nobody's perfect.

[Roadkingtrax]

Edit: Togor you got me by 3 minutes.


Lewis Howard Latimer introduced the carbon filament that made it successful you toads.

Lewis H. Latimer
The carbon-filament light bulb

Some have claimed that Latimer, not Bell, actually invented the telephone. However, this is unlikely because Latimer often defended Bell's claims to first inventions in court. Later, Latimer became a member of Thomas Edison's elite research team, "Edison's Pioneers." Latimer made his most important scientific contributions here by improving the light bulb that was invented by Edison.

Edison's prototypical light bulb was lit by a glowing, electrified filament made of paper, which unfortunately burnt out rather quickly. Latimer created a light bulb with a filament made of the much more durable carbon. He sold the patent for the "Incandescent Electric Light Bulb with Carbon Filament" to the United States Electric Company in 1881, but he did not rest on his laurels. Latimer went on to patent a process for efficiently manufacturing the carbon filament (1882) and developed the now familiar threaded socket (though his was wooden) for his improved bulb. Moreover, Latimer wrote the first book on electric lighting, "Incandescent Electric Lighting" (1890) and supervised the installation of public electric lights throughout New York, Philadelphia, Montreal, and London.

[Major Tom]

And, don't you all know that black africans discovered America and built the nation as we know it today? And a black man made the recipe for Jack Daniels? Oh, and blacks actually built the White House?

[Gun Smoke]

And, don't you all know that black africans discovered America and built the nation as we know it today? And a black man made the recipe for Jack Daniels? Oh, and blacks actually built the White House?

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I'd sooner believe Al Gore.

[S.A. Boggs]

Latimer was in many ways like Edison himself, a tinkerer willing to try things. The article does an adequate job of explaining Latimer's relation to Edison and his contributions.

Edison was known to sometimes take singular credit for the work of a team, but then again he should get credit for assembling a team, and not letting skin color be an issue.

In the Natural History museum in DC there's an exhibit on sound recording, early research. Guys were trying all kinds of things to capture and reproduce sound. Then the Edison phonograph comes along, these wax cylinders with a stylus. Just blew everyone away. There's a practical brilliance there.

On the other hand, Edison stayed invested in DC power distribution, when Alternating current was clearly superior.

Nobody's perfect.

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Togey's hero
Sam

[Vern Humphrey]

And Aristotle got all of his ideas from the Library of Alexandria. And Alexandria is in Africa!!

(Alexandria is a GREEK city, built by Ptolemy, who would not allow native Egyptians (who are Semites, not Blacks) to live in the city. Aristotle died in 322 BC and construction on the Library didn't start until 295 BC.)