THANK YOU. This was worth the wait. While I knew that a Black American was credited with a contribution to the lightbulb I didn’t know who he was nor his various talents. I trained as a draftsperson years ago but never connected it to patent grants. I was truly mesmerized by this story. And then, you dropped a REAL nugget. I’ve never been to Brixton but I know the song Electric Avenue by Eddy Grant and I believe there’s a connection.True??? Great job A+++ I will share this with my American friends who probably don’t know the story. Hope you post again soon!!’ Update: I just looked him up on Wikipedia and discovered that his house in Queens, NY was given a historic designation. I’ll definitely swing by there one day.
Eddie Grants song is about the same street, not sure if he new about Lewis Latimer, but I will try go fine out. Eddie moved back to Caribbean as far as I know. Thanks for you comment, very interesting.
TY so much for the additional information. I knew about Latimer when I was a young girl. He was part of a presentation I did on African American inventors and scientist. I still have that paper from long ago.
Great video. Loved the information regarding Electric Avenue. I couldn’t help it - I just had to break out in song ie Eddy Grants song. The History debunked channel has a video entitled - ‘How Black Americans are Highjacking Britain’s Cultural History ‘. One of the issue ithey have is regarding Mr Latimer. Ok, thanks & peace 🙏😏🤠🧐
In 1881, Joseph Swan of Newcastle upon Tyne had already opened a factor in Benwell making lightbulbs with carbon filaments. It is hard to claim you invented something when a factory has been open for a year making your 'invention'
But how long did Swan's lightbulbs last before failing? 13.5 hours. Latimer's filament lasted much longer and were the first commercially applicable incandescent light bulb.
That still doesn't count as an invention. It is called an 'improvement.' Swan's lightbulbs were obviously commercially applicable. He was selling them. Now if Latimer had thought of using tungsten instead of something that was already being used by Joseph Swan. But we had to wait a while before people realised that Latimer (and Swan!) was using the wrong material.
Have never heard Latimer's name associated w/the water closet inventions for railcars, etc. as well as his work in London. It's a well-known truth now that Edison received credit for inventions that others created that he partnered with. He also had enormous financial backing from J.P. Morgan.
@@phoenixhvac-r828 You appear astute enough to ask the question so use that same ability to go and do your OWN research as opposed to wanting to be spoon-fed the information.
You're just another pretender, I would have excepted Tesla, although you would have been wrong, some people have been spoonfed Everthing for decades and just can't keep up, so they retreat to fiction, know what I mean ?
The reasons why we hear about those characters and not others because of the agenda by academia to push a narrative of who important to who not important, this is where outside of academia one needs to resesrch deeper to find the truth and bring it to the people. Youre doing a GREAT JOB. Keep it up
You’re right, but not just the narrative from academia, it’s a whole system of erasure. From the patent office that allowed Edison to receive credit, to the newspapers that gave him credit, to the history taught in our school houses. Many arms of the state have to be involved for the level of racism we see to be possible!
I will speak more about this in next video, From what I understand is not a clear agenda, Edison just became more popular in his day, There are lamps from English inventors before Latimer and Edison. Hyram Maxim is white but nobody knows about him. Plus all of these guys worked in teams so there are other contributors, Latimer first lamp improvement was a joint effort. All inventions take many steps. media and school try to make things easy, by creating heroes. It makes better headlines.
@@historyonthego ah very true - I look forward to your future videos on this! I do think though while there may not be a secret society out to erase the accomplishments of minorities, when there is not a conscious effort in institutions to be mindful, these important stories get lost. It’s like, if you work in a school and nothing is planned for black history month - there’s no active agenda to keep the children from their history, but not having the access to these resources is a systemic issue that will have negative consequences on the children and feed into this cultural system where we are primed to not value some stories over others. The government is involved in setting curriculum so in my mind they are also fully complicit in this.
Yes Lenord this is the true history we need to know not what Afrocentrics saying Lewis Latimer invented the light bulb which is incorrect. We dont need to lie on our inventors on what they did we just need to correct certain information.
A black man also made the portable A/C unit... Refrigerator... Traffic light... Jack Daniels...
Yes bro....it was nice having in my yard and listening to some great history. Bless bro.
THANK YOU. This was worth the wait. While I knew that a Black American was credited with a contribution to the lightbulb I didn’t know who he was nor his various talents. I trained as a draftsperson years ago but never connected it to patent grants.
I was truly mesmerized by this story.
And then, you dropped a REAL nugget.
I’ve never been to Brixton but I know the song Electric Avenue by Eddy Grant and I believe there’s a connection.True???
Great job A+++
I will share this with my American friends who probably don’t know the story. Hope you post again soon!!’
Update: I just looked him up on Wikipedia and discovered that his house in Queens, NY was given a historic designation. I’ll definitely swing by there one day.
Eddie Grants song is about the same street, not sure if he new about Lewis Latimer, but I will try go fine out. Eddie moved back to Caribbean as far as I know. Thanks for you comment, very interesting.
Thanks for this great comment…
TY so much for the additional information. I knew about Latimer when I was a young girl. He was part of a presentation I did on African American inventors and scientist. I still have that paper from long ago.
Happy to know I gave you some additional info, There is so much.
Great video. Loved the information regarding Electric Avenue. I couldn’t help it - I just had to break out in song ie Eddy Grants song. The History debunked channel has a video entitled - ‘How Black Americans are Highjacking Britain’s Cultural History ‘. One of the issue ithey have is regarding Mr Latimer. Ok, thanks & peace 🙏😏🤠🧐
Missed your vids mate as I haven't seen one for a bit in my feed..(have adjusted settings!!)
Thank for this info from U.S.
In 1881, Joseph Swan of Newcastle upon Tyne had already opened a factor in Benwell making lightbulbs with carbon filaments. It is hard to claim you invented something when a factory has been open for a year making your 'invention'
But how long did Swan's lightbulbs last before failing? 13.5 hours. Latimer's filament lasted much longer and were the first commercially applicable incandescent light bulb.
That still doesn't count as an invention. It is called an 'improvement.' Swan's lightbulbs were obviously commercially applicable. He was selling them.
Now if Latimer had thought of using tungsten instead of something that was already being used by Joseph Swan.
But we had to wait a while before people realised that Latimer (and Swan!) was using the wrong material.
Ok, point well made - but who in this video said he INVENTED IT? 🙏😏
Have never heard Latimer's name associated w/the water closet inventions for railcars, etc. as well as his work in London. It's a well-known truth now that Edison received credit for inventions that others created that he partnered with. He also had enormous financial backing from J.P. Morgan.
I'm curious who are the " Others " and what exactly did they invent.
@@phoenixhvac-r828 You appear astute enough to ask the question so use that same ability to go and do your OWN research as opposed to wanting to be spoon-fed the information.
You're just another pretender, I would have excepted Tesla, although you would have been wrong, some people have been spoonfed Everthing for decades and just can't keep up, so they retreat to fiction, know what I mean ?
@@phoenixhvac-r828 Whaaaa... 👶🍼 😭 mommy this person posted a comment I don't like!!! What should I do? Mommy: Go read a book phoenix HVAC-R 😂😂🤣🤣😆😅😄🤣
That's it, that's all you got, alright then, well I enjoyed the banter, you take care.
Excellent
Great video
The reasons why we hear about those characters and not others because of the agenda by academia to push a narrative of who important to who not important, this is where outside of academia one needs to resesrch deeper to find the truth and bring it to the people. Youre doing a GREAT JOB. Keep it up
You’re right, but not just the narrative from academia, it’s a whole system of erasure. From the patent office that allowed Edison to receive credit, to the newspapers that gave him credit, to the history taught in our school houses.
Many arms of the state have to be involved for the level of racism we see to be possible!
I will speak more about this in next video, From what I understand is not a clear agenda, Edison just became more popular in his day, There are lamps from English inventors before Latimer and Edison. Hyram Maxim is white but nobody knows about him. Plus all of these guys worked in teams so there are other contributors, Latimer first lamp improvement was a joint effort. All inventions take many steps. media and school try to make things easy, by creating heroes. It makes better headlines.
@@historyonthego ah very true - I look forward to your future videos on this!
I do think though while there may not be a secret society out to erase the accomplishments of minorities, when there is not a conscious effort in institutions to be mindful, these important stories get lost. It’s like, if you work in a school and nothing is planned for black history month - there’s no active agenda to keep the children from their history, but not having the access to these resources is a systemic issue that will have negative consequences on the children and feed into this cultural system where we are primed to not value some stories over others. The government is involved in setting curriculum so in my mind they are also fully complicit in this.
Yes Lenord this is the true history we need to know not what Afrocentrics saying Lewis Latimer invented the light bulb which is incorrect. We dont need to lie on our inventors on what they did we just need to correct certain information.
Latimer made it Edison stole it