Thomas Edison often gets the credit for inventing the light bulb, but in reality, dozens of inventors were working to perfect commercial lighting. One of those inventors was Lewis Latimer. In 1868, the Black inventor was hired at a law firm that specialized in patents in 1868; while there, ...
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. Edison , the inventor of the light bulb, mademodels that failed before he found the right way to make one. Once he was askedhe kept on trying to make a new type of battery when he had failed so often, he replied, “Failure? I havefailure. Now I know 50,000 ways it won't”...
Black lights also are known as ultraviolet lamps, UV-A light, and Wood's lamp. The name "Wood's lamp" honors Robert Williams Wood, the inventor ofglass UVfilters. Nearly all of the light of good black light should be in the UV portion of the spectrum, with very littlevisible light. ...
Son of a runaway slave, Lewis Howard Latimer became an electrical engineer who worked for Thomas A. Edison, inventor of the light bulb, and Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. Many of Latimer’s ideas, including the fine carbon wire which lights up, went into Edison’s light...
In 1884, Tesla migrated to New York. He continued his employment with Edison’s organization. Tesla was an electrical engineering genius, and inventor. Tesla and Edison became fierce competitors. In about 1886, Tesla opened his own laboratory in New York. Tesla invented and perfected the alterna...
Regular television broadcasts soon became a reality, initially reaching a limited number of people due to the scarce availability of high-end TVs. The Farnsworth television, named after its inventor, stood out for its use of the image dissector, which allowed for clearer pictures than the spinnin...
The earliest patents for train telegraphs go back toat least 1873. Lucius Phelps was the first inventor in the field to attract widespread notice, and the telegrams he exchanged on the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad in January 1885 were hailed in the Feb. 21, 1885 issue ofScient...