| BKFK Home Page | BKFK Kids | Inventors | Latimer, Lewis
Lewis Howard Latimer
Carbon Filament (Lighting)
- Invented and patented an incandescent light bulb with a carbon
filament in 1881.
- An engineer for the Edison Company, Latimer invented
the carbon filament, thus making the light bulb practical.
- Learn more about Lewis
Howard Latimer
|