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Google News: Ask a Black Guy
[A & T Register] - Guy #1- Lewis Latimer was perhaps one of the greatest inventors of all time. He is the man who played major roles in helping inventors such as Alexander Graham Bell (the inventor of the telephone) and Thomas Edison (the inventor of the light bulb).
NBA legend Abdul-Jabbar reads to Tustin kids
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[OCRegister] - Abdul-Jabbar and Obstfeld told the 260 elementary students it took eight months to write the book, which tells the tale of a family who moves into a house haunted by a famous African-American inventor, Lewis Howard Latimer. The former Laker spoke about
Google News: African-American Inventors
[Biography] - Though Thomas Edison is recognized as the inventor of the light bulb, African-American inventor Lewis Latimer played an important role in its development. In 1881, Latimer patented a method for making carbon filaments, allowing light bulbs to burn for
Google News: The writer and the star
[Coast Report] - Abdul-Jabbar said the concept for the book came from his book “Black Profiles in Courage” that featured African-American inventor Lewis Latimer, who developed the filament for the light bulb. “I thought it was a perfect subject for a children's
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