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Biden says a black man invented the light bulb, not Tomas Edison

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I mean really, you just can’t make this nonsense up :lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:
 
Edison didn't really invent the incandescent bulb either, he just commercialized it. Edison was also notorious for stealing and patenting other people's work. Iirc Edison was sued over his patents on the incandescent bulb and lost having the patent invalidated and forcing him to work with another business partner he'd tried to screw over.

Biden isn't correct, but he's not completely wrong either. He's referring to Lewis Latimer who did most of the ground work on the modern incandescent bulb, as well as the telephone. Iirc he was one of the founders of GE or one of the major companies that formed GE, something along those lines.
 
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michael.gonzalez said:
This, But please tell me more OP.
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Sure anything you want
https://www.biography.com/inventor/lewis-howard-latimer

https://grist.org/climate-energy/me...rican-american-who-enlightened-thomas-edison/

From second quote
Edison gets technical credit for patenting the first “practical incandescent” lightbulb during this time, and also, as the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) reminds us, creating the first electric light power station.
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But while Edison got the patent on those, he got there with a lot of help from Latimer, who literally wrote the book on both. Latimer’s Incandescent Electric Lighting: A Practical Description of the Edison System is a bit more deferential to Edison than perhaps necessary. That was likely a reflection of the times when big ideas couldn’t possibly be ascribed to non-white people, especially when the burgeoning eugenics movement was considered serious science. But Latimer had already been involved in a major invention, having helped Alexander Graham Bell patent the telephone in 1876. In 1880, Latimer began working for the United States Electric Lighting Company, which was run by Edison’s rival Hiram S. Maxim.
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I am learning so much today because you are literally a singularity of stupidity.

It looks like Lewis Latimer worked with edison on the lightbulb and then went on to really refine the bulb (inventing and patenting a new way to make carbon filament) and then helped install broad-scale lighting systems for New York City, Philadelphia, Montreal, and London. He also holds the patent for the electric lamp. I never knew of him. Glad i got to read about him.

Had biden been intellectually honest and said that Latimer took a great invention and then through intelligence and hard work refined it and brought it to the masses that would be been awesome. This guy does not need joe biden to stick up for him. He did more in 20 years than biden did his whole life. But instead of letting Lewis Latimer stand on his own merit he had to pander to his audience and exaggerate and basically lie to make it look like evil whitey took another thing from black people.


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nahmus said:
Sure anything you want
https://www.biography.com/inventor/lewis-howard-latimer

https://grist.org/climate-energy/me...rican-american-who-enlightened-thomas-edison/



I am learning so much today because you are literally a singularity of stupidity.

It looks like Lewis Latimer worked with edison on the lightbulb and then went on to really refine the bulb (inventing and patenting a new way to make carbon filament) and then helped install broad-scale lighting systems for New York City, Philadelphia, Montreal, and London. He also holds the patent for the electric lamp. I never knew of him. Glad i got to read about him.

Had biden been intellectually honest and said that Latimer took a great invention and then through intelligence and hard work refined it and brought it to the masses that would be been awesome. This guy does not need joe biden to stick up for him. He did more in 20 years than biden did his whole life. But instead of letting Lewis Latimer stand on his own merit he had to pander to his audience and exaggerate and basically lie to make it look like evil whitey took another thing from black people.


Thanks for attending the Nahmus online learning academy.
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Latimer is exactly the kind of guy Edison would hire, and if his book is 'deferential' to Edison, that's because white men who wanted to work with Edison were also deferential. Edison didn't brook much else.

The light bulb had been in existence since 1840 so the only real thing to do with it was patent one that could be sold to the masses. Edison's company did that, and Latimer was an important part of that work. Really, a guy with no money or VC of his own has to act exactly the same way Latimer did, and people still do this today.

Who invented the transistor? I don't know off the top of my head, but it was invented at Bell Labs in the late 1940s, because that's a spot where you could get huge funding to do pretty much whatever you wanted. Latimer was expected to produce commercially successful results, a lot more restricted than Bell, but still it's the same thing.

I'm sure Latimer would have had an impossible time to start his own StartUp Incubator, being black, but he's really not in more of a restricted spot than all the white guys who slaved for Edison, who was a known asshole.

Still, the greatest Black Inventor of all time remains Lonnie Johnson, so this is all academic.
 
I honestly thought it was Tesla?:confused:
 
Never heard of Lonnie Johnson. He has quite the resume. that was another good read.
 
Motorcharge said:
Edison didn't really invent the incandescent bulb either, he just commercialized it. Edison was also notorious for stealing and patenting other people's work. Iirc Edison was sued over his patents on the incandescent bulb and lost having the patent invalidated and forcing him to work with another business partner he'd tried to screw over.

Biden isn't correct, but he's not completely wrong either. He's referring to Lewis Latimer who did most of the ground work on the modern incandescent bulb, as well as the telephone. Iirc he was one of the founders of GE or one of the major companies that formed GE, something along those lines.
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Two lesser-known inventors, Humphrey Davy and Joseph Swan (who won a patent lawsuit against Edison), both developed working electric lights well before Edison.
 
All I know Edison had a laboratory in Menlo Park, NJ & he hired the best to work there-
 
Slander said:
Can this election just be used as an example that the "leaders" of this country are nothing but pandering buffoons who are functionally retarded and should be given zero respect.
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As I've posted before there's no place in politics for the truth. At least from what I've seen. All sides lie through their teeth.
 
SanDiegoCJ said:
Two lesser-known inventors, Humphrey Davy and Joseph Swan (who won a patent lawsuit against Edison), both developed working electric lights well before Edison.
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Joseph Swan is lesser-known in the US, but Humphrey Davy is in every single American High School Chemistry textbook, or should be. He was in every one I've seen, as well as Chem 101 and 102 in college.

Swan is not well-known in the US, but in the UK he is considered the inventor of the light bulb. In the same way that they consider John Baird the inventor of Television. Baird's Television was mechanical, so not going to be practical in the end, and the US considers Philo Farnsworth the inventor of that. 'Television' as we understood it with cathode ray tubes and coils was a Farnsworth invention, in the same way that Tungsten filaments in incandescent lamps were Edison's invention.

Swan's light bulb used platinum as the filament, obviously not commercially viable. There were others that did incandescent lamps but Swan is the one the British chose and he is taught in Primary school there.

Anyway I'm just saying, Davy is definitely not lesser-known, and outside the US, Swan isn't either.

note: I believe Professor Farnsworth in Futurama is named after Philo Farnsworth. Not really personality wise, but the way Farnsworth invented the TV is sort of like the Professor, always up to something and sort of making a business to support his research, like Planet Express.
 
I was taught in school that George Washington Carver invented peanut butter. I was surprised to find that isn't the case while researching him because of this thread.
 
Edison proved you don't have to be the smartest mf...you just have to be able to manipulate them.

he'd made a great politician :laughing:
 
DuckTape said:
I was taught in school that George Washington Carver invented peanut butter. I was surprised to find that isn't the case while researching him because of this thread.
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Never understood that myth. He was a very accomplished dude and a serious ag scientist. His greatest accomplishment was proving the benefits of crop rotation and reenergizing cotton fields with peanuts crops.
 
Emiller22207 said:
Never understood that myth. He was a very accomplished dude and a serious ag scientist. His greatest accomplishment was proving the benefits of crop rotation and reenergizing cotton fields with peanuts crops.
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It's not all that surprising. The guy was also big on peanuts and wrote extensively about them and promoted a shitload of peanut products. Peanut butter had existed prior to him, but it wasn't a common staple like it is today. A lot of his books and writings promoting peanuts included peanut butter. Not surprising that people went a little further with it back then considering peanut butter became popular during the height of his career.
 
Edison’s biggest rival was a guy named Westinghouse.
DC or AC
Worlds Fair lighting
Steam Turbines
Gas Turbines
Nuclear
 
Edison was a total scum bag. He was a sick man who tortured animals horribly
 
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