{"id":1960,"date":"2025-08-04T01:43:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.gfcie75.com\/?post_type=celebrite&#038;p=1960"},"modified":"2025-08-12T19:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:51:24","slug":"lewis-latimer-1848-1922","status":"publish","type":"celebrite","link":"https:\/\/gfcie75.com\/en\/celebrite\/lewis-latimer-1848-1922\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Latimer (1848 \u2013 1922)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3902b4c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent e-lazyloaded\" data-id=\"3902b4c\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a9922ce elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a9922ce\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">When you think of the light bulb, many people think of Thomas Edison. But few people know that inventor Lewis Howard Latimer created a method for producing carbon filaments that far surpassed Edison&#039;s paper filament, which burned out very quickly. Lewis Latimer&#039;s invention made the light bulb possible in everyday life, completely transforming the industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-107d7d0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent e-lazyloaded\" data-id=\"107d7d0\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-229eff3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"229eff3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">He was born on\u00a0<\/span>September 4, 1848<span class=\"s2\">\u00a0in Chelsea, Massachusetts and is the youngest of four children of George and Rebecca Latimer.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">George Latimer worked as a slave for various owners in Virginia<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>until the end of 1842.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">In\u00a0<span class=\"s3\">1880<\/span>\u00a0Latimer was hired as an executive assistant and design draftsman by\u00a0<span class=\"s3\">Hiram Maxim<\/span>, chief engineer of\u00a0<span class=\"s4\"><i>Electro-Dynamic Light Company<\/i><\/span><\/span><span class=\"s5\">,<\/span><span class=\"s1\">company founded in\u00a0<span class=\"s3\">1878<\/span>\u00a0who is the first to distribute\u00a0<span class=\"s3\">electricity<\/span>\u00a0and to manufacture incandescent light bulbs. It is in this context that he will develop an electric light bulb with a carbon filament, in\u00a0<span class=\"s3\">1881<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s6\">.<\/span><span class=\"s7\">\u00a0We then send it to\u00a0<span class=\"s8\">London<\/span>, where he is responsible for setting up a factory\u00a0<span class=\"s8\">incandescent lamps<\/span>\u00a0for the<i>Electro-Dynamic Light Company<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"gtx-trans\" style=\"position: absolute; left: 254px; top: 46px;\">\n<div class=\"gtx-trans-icon\"><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1962,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960","celebrite","type-celebrite","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfcie75.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/celebrite\/1960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfcie75.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/celebrite"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfcie75.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/celebrite"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfcie75.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfcie75.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfcie75.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfcie75.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfcie75.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}