Best Known For Lewis Howard Latimer was an inventor and
draftsman best known for his contributions to the patenting of
the light bulb and the telephone. Think you know about
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players.Play Now Lewis Howard Latimer was born in Chelsea,
Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848, to parents who had fled
slavery. Latimer learned the art of mechanical drawing while
working at a patent firm. Over the course of his career as a
draftsman, Latimer worked closely with Thomas Edison and
Alexander Graham Bell, in addition to designing his own
inventions. He died in Flushing, Queens, New York, on December
11, Inventor and engineer Lewis Howard Latimer was born in
Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848. Latimer was the
youngest of four children born to George and Rebecca Latimer,
who had escaped from slavery in Virginia six years before his
birth. Captured in Boston and brought to trial as a fugitive,
George Latimer was defended by abolitionists Frederick Douglas