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Latimer, Lewis Howard, 1848-1928

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Personal name headingLatimer, Lewis Howard, 1848-1928
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Variant(s)Latimer, L. H. (Lewis Howard), 1848-1928
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date18480904
Death date19281211
Place of birthChelsea (Mass.)
Place of deathQueens (New York, N.Y.)
AffiliationEdison Electric Light Company Edison Pioneers
Profession or occupationElectrical engineers Inventors
Found inTurner, G. T. Lewis Howard Latimer, c1990: galley (b. 9/4/1848; d. 12/11/1928)
nuc88-103029: His Incandescent electric lighting [MI] 1890 (hdg. on MiU rept.: Latimer, Louis H.; usage: L.H. Latimer)
African American National Biography, accessed February 18, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Latimer, Lewis Howard; electrical engineer, inventor; born 04 September 1848 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States; was an office boy for Crosby and Gould, patent solicitors in Boston and became chief draftsman (mid-1870s); his first creation was a water closet for railway cars, co-invented with W. C. Brown (1874); drafted the diagrams for Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent application (1876); relocated to Bridgeport, Connecticut; Hiram Stevens Maxim, the chief engineer of the U.S. Electric Lighting Company, hired Latimer as his draftsman and private secretary (1880); the company moved to New York City and he was placed in charge of the production of carbon lamp filaments; was granted a patent for a new process of manufacturing carbons (1882); patented other inventions, including two for an electric lamp and a globe support for electric lamps; established an incandescent lamp factory for the newly founded Maxim-Weston Electric Light Company in London (1881); created the Latimer Lamp; worked at the Edison Electric Light Company (1883); wrote a work, “Incandescent Electric Lighting, a Practical Description of the Edison System” (1890); was the chief draftsman when the General Electric Company and the Westinghouse Electric Company formed the Board of Patent Control (1896-1911); was one of the twenty-nine original members of the organization Edison Pioneers (1918); died 11 December 1928 in Queens, New York, United States)
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