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AT A GLANCE: Louis Latimer received a patent for an improved process for manufacturing the carbon filaments in light bulbs.

Lewis Howard Latimer - U.S. Patent #247,097 (co-inventor Joseph V. Nichols) - 9/13/1881 - Electric lamp...

Lewis Howard Latimer invented a process of manufacturing carbons ... Lewis Howard Latimer - U.S. Patent #252,386 - 1/17/1882 - Process of manufacturing carbons

Latimer developed many other inventions, including the first toilet that could be used in trains (1874, patent #147,363 - called "Water closet for railroad cars"), and a forerunner of the...

His first patent, approved on February 10, 1874, was for a water closet for railroad cars. ... After dissolution of the Board of Patent Control, Latimer again became associated with Edwin W. Hammer,

Bell rushed his patent application to the patent office mere hours ahead of the competition and won the patent rights to the telephone with the help of Latimer.

The Standard Oil trust incorporated January 2 by John D. Rockefeller and his ... A U.S. patent (No. 252,386) issued January 17 to engineer Lewis Latimer covers a process for making carbons.

African American Patent Holders Database Adapted and verified from About.com Black History Inventors - Patent Holders List Index by Mary Bellis by Mrs. Cheryl J. Mason-Middleton,

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