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Did Edison steal his idea for the light bulb from an African-American inventor named Lewis Howard Latimer?

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Did Edison steal his idea for the light bulb from an African-American inventor named Lewis Howard Latimer?

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Lewis Latimer was an amazing man. The son of a runaway slave, Latimer overcame both racism and poverty to become an inventor, engineer and poet. However, neither he nor Edison invented the first light bulb. (See the question above.