![BGE on Twitter: "It's #NationalInventorsDay! Today we recognize brilliant minds like Lewis Howard Latimer. A pioneering inventor and engineer, Latimer created the carbon light bulb filament, paving the way for the widespread BGE on Twitter: "It's #NationalInventorsDay! Today we recognize brilliant minds like Lewis Howard Latimer. A pioneering inventor and engineer, Latimer created the carbon light bulb filament, paving the way for the widespread](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fos3mnwWYAAmW7I.jpg)
BGE on Twitter: "It's #NationalInventorsDay! Today we recognize brilliant minds like Lewis Howard Latimer. A pioneering inventor and engineer, Latimer created the carbon light bulb filament, paving the way for the widespread
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Bumping into new technologies: Hey, that's not what a light bulb is supposed to look like! | National Museum of American History
Los Angeles Urban League - While the light bulb was invented by Thomas Edison, it was African American Inventor Lewis Latimer's invention of a carbon filament that created the longer-lasting light bulbs.
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![Meet Lewis Latimer, who made the light bulb longer lasting | Michael Coard - Pennsylvania Capital-Star Meet Lewis Latimer, who made the light bulb longer lasting | Michael Coard - Pennsylvania Capital-Star](https://www.penncapital-star.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/COARD-LIGHTBULB-COLUMN.webp)
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General Electric National Mazda Drawn Tungsten Filament Incandescent Light Bulb - Science History Institute Digital Collections
![NY Power Authority on Twitter: "On this day in 1848, Lewis Latimer is born. Latimer invented a lightbulb with a carbon filament, improving on Edison's original paper filament. Learn more about his NY Power Authority on Twitter: "On this day in 1848, Lewis Latimer is born. Latimer invented a lightbulb with a carbon filament, improving on Edison's original paper filament. Learn more about his](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EhF174RWsAAPYgK.jpg)