Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison, Hiram S. Maxim and Lewis Howard Latimer. These four men were the greatest inventors and innovators of their day. They were all born in the late 1840s, and ...
Accompanies the exhibit: Blueprint for change: the life and times of Lewis H. Latimer, dated Feb. 3-Aug. 26, 1995, held at Queens Borough Public Library.
A biography of the Afro-American inventor who, among other contributions, invented an inexpensive method for manufacturing carbon filaments for electric light bulbs ...