Lewis Latimer

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Marshall McLuhan wrote to Tony, "Have you heard that if Thomas Edison hadn't invented the electric bulb, we'd all be watching television by candlelight." Men work with each other. Poet Joseph Cox has written a poem about Lewis Latimer, a black man born a slave, who invented the filament of the electric bulb and drafted a prototype telephone for Alexander G. Bell. Tony reads a line from the poem. 4:07


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