ON THIS DAY IN UNITED STATES HISTORY
September 13, 1881
African American Inventor Lewis Latimer Receives
Patent for First Light Bulb Using a Carbon Filament
On this day in 1881, Lewis Howard Latimer and felow inventor Joseph V. Nichols recieved a patent for the first
electric light bulb using a carbon filament. Previous inventors had tried thousands of different materials
including carbonized cotton thread which Thomas Edison discovered and used in his patent in January of the previous
year.
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