LETTER FROM LEWIS HOWARD LATIMER TO THOMAS ALVA EDISON, JUNE 16TH, 1888
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Latimer, Lewis Howard, 1848-1928
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Lewis Howard Latimer (b. Sept. 4, 1848, Chelsea, MA-d. Dec. 11, 1928, Queens, NY) was the the youngest child of Rebecca and George Latimer. Lewis joined the U.S. Navy in 1863. He married Mary Wilson Lewis in 1873 and had two daughters, Emma Jeanette and Louise Rebecca. He began working as an office boy at a patent law firm in 1865 and soon began sketching patent drawings. In 1874, he co-patented (with Charles W. Brown) an improved toilet system for railroad cars called the Water Closet for Rail...
Latimer, Lewis Howard, 1848-1928
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Lewis Howard Latimer (b. Sept. 4, 1848, Chelsea, MA-d. Dec. 11, 1928, Queens, NY) was the the youngest child of Rebecca and George Latimer. Lewis joined the U.S. Navy in 1863. He married Mary Wilson Lewis in 1873 and had two daughters, Emma Jeanette and Louise Rebecca. He began working as an office boy at a patent law firm in 1865 and soon began sketching patent drawings. In 1874, he co-patented (with Charles W. Brown) an improved toilet system for railroad cars called the Water Closet for Rail...
