Black History Month 2021 Honoree Lewis Latimer
Image Credit: 1998 T. A. Charon (Courtesy of Maxwell Library, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts)
Although Thomas Edison is credited with inventing the light bulb, Lewis Howard Latimer, a black inventor, patented a more efficient manufacturing process that encased the light bulb filament in cardboard allowing it to become more affordable and adoptable, spreading it around the world.
