Miscellany, 1919-1984.

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Miscellany, 1919-1984.

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Photograph depicting Latimer at age 70; photograph of other Edison inventors, 1920; news clippings referring to a street and a housing project named after Latimer, 1971-1984; and a booklet about his life, 1973.

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Latimer Houses (Flushing, New York, N.Y.)

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Edison, Thomas Alva, 1847-1931

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Thomas Alva Edison (born February 11, 1847, Milan, Ohio – died October 18, 1931, West Orange, New Jersey), American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrial...

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...