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BULB DISCUSSION BOARDS => Antique Bulb Discussion => Topic started by: darione on August 09, 2003, 06:36:00 am

Title: Lewis Latimer, the Inventor of the Carbon Filament and the T
Post by: darione on August 09, 2003, 06:36:00 am

http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/latimer.html (http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/latimer.html)

Edison's prototypical light bulb was lit by a glowing, electrified filament made of paper, which unfortunately burnt out rather quickly. Latimer created a light bulb with a filament made of the much more durable carbon. He sold the patent for the "Incandescent Electric Light Bulb with Carbon Filament" to the United States Electric Company in 1881, but did not rest on his laurels. Latimer went on to patent a process for efficiently manufacturing the carbon filament (1882), and developed the now familiar threaded socket (though his was wooden) for his improved bulb. Moreover, Latimer wrote the first book on electric lighting, Incandescent Electric Lighting (1890), and supervised the installation of public electric lights throughout New York, Philadelphia, Montreal, and London.

Title: Lewis Latimer, the Inventor of the Carbon Filament and the T
Post by: Dino on August 09, 2003, 09:22:00 am

Welcome to the Forum Darione....
Mr Latimer is an inventor that those of us in
the Bulb Collecting World hold in high regard. Thanks for your input.

Title: Lewis Latimer, the Inventor of the Carbon Filament and the T
Post by: Sal on August 21, 2003, 02:27:00 am

I don't get it.  Didn't Swan use a carbon filament all the way back in 1860?

Also, are they trying to say that Latimer invented the Edison screw base?