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Democratic p**********l nominee Joe Biden claimed during a town hall in Kenosha, Wisconsin, that a “black man invented the light bulb” and not Thomas Edison.

“Why in God’s name don’t we teach history in history classes?” Biden asked Thursday prior to his claim.

“A black man invented the light bulb, not a white guy named Edison. OK?”

https://www.westernjournal.com/fact-check-biden-claims-black-man-invented-light-bulb-kenosha-town-hall/?utm_source=push&utm_medium=conservativetribune&utm_content=2020-09-04&utm_campaign=pushtraffic

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

The Western Journal is a self avowedly Conservative organization. So trust not this post.

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

I find that interesting. Most sources call Marconi the inventor of Radio. The US Supreme court ruled, in the 40's that Tesla invented radio. Because Edison owned the patents, doesn't mean he did the inventing. It's reported that Edison fought Tesla so hard because Edison didn't realize his light bulb would even work on AC. Edison is famous for saying "invention is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. Apparently for Edison this was true. Edison was a fierce business person. Inventor? Not so much.

travelwp Loc: New Jersey

That's not true. The real reason is that Edison realized that AC could be t***smitted hundreds of miles; whereas his DC system would need a generating station every couple of city blocks.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Beep... wrong again Travelwp, you get confused by the flimflam man Trump....[And Trump is not the Second Coming of Jesus, perhaps the Devil but not Jesus]

"By the end of 1887 Westinghouse had 68 alternating current power stations to Edison's 121 DC-based stations. " Edison fought hard to discredit the use of AC, even electrocuted an Elephant to prove it unsafe and to promote his DC. Nicolas Telsa invented AC motors and generators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents

Semi correct about a Blackman and the lightbulb. However Edison did not invent the bulb, it was a slow evolution with many failures. Some actually attribute the light bulb to ancient times along with the DC batteries.

"Latimer who was black improved upon Edison's original design. Latimer created a light bulb with a more durable filament made of carbon. He sold the patent to the US Electric Co. in 1881, and a year later patented a process for efficiently manufacturing the carbon filament. He even wrote a book in 1890 on electric lighting, the first of its kind. " Edison Labs research lightbulb improvements but did not actually invent the bulb.

Latimer was an inventor known for working closely with Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone (though some claim that invention is actually Latimer's)."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/us/biden-lightbulb-black-man-trnd/index.html

As I said, the light bulb evolved and was probably invented or observed many times going back to antiquity.
"In 1802, Humphry Davy invented the first electric light. He experimented with electricity and invented an electric battery. When he connected wires to his battery and a piece of carbon, the carbon glowed, producing light. His invention was known as the Electric Arc lamp. And while it produced light, it didn’t produce it for long and was much too bright for practical use."
https://www.bulbs.com/learning/history.aspx

Anyway, not Edison:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb

Also see the Bagdad Battery:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery

Telsa [Elon Musk] did not invent the electric car did he, No they have come and gone, but probably here to stay.

boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander

The "light" bulb had many "inventions" along it's development. But it was NOT invented by a black man. Perhaps contribution is a better word. But Not invention. Biden was flat out wrong, and even more importantly pandering to black v**ers. And every other "contributor" was white. Just another one of those annoying facts

mwalsh Loc: Houston

Biden made a mistake and kinda told a lie.


He has a whole lot, a major lot, of catching up to do if he wants to match the current POTUS lie for lie.

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

Geez, I hope we're not in for another four years of ... "What the president really meant to say was ..."

travelwp Loc: New Jersey

WOW, the subject is about the light bulb, Biden's error and Edison vs Tesla, not Trump.

Sorry that you are still carrying h**e for Hillary's loss.

slocumeddie Loc: Inside your head, again

It is on video, but trust not your eyes and ears.....

TDS.....a terrible scourge for the left, eh.....???

steve03 Loc: long Lsland

First patent was issued to a black man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Howard_Latimer

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Latimer beat Edison by 2 years, so Biden was not telling a Trumper.
Latimer received a patent on January 17, 1882 for the "Process of Manufacturing Carbons", an improved method for the production of lightbulb carbon filaments.

The Edison Electric Light Company in New York City hired Latimer in 1884, as a draftsman and an expert witness in patent litigation on electric lights. While at Edison, Latimer wrote the first book on electric lighting, Incandescent Electric Lighting (1890) and supervised the installation of public electric lights throughout New York, Philadelphia, Montreal, and London. When that company was combined in 1892 with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric, he continued to work in the legal department. In 1911, he became a patent consultant to law firms.

Electric lighting is a sorted history... Edison did not invent the light bulb, he had the money to dev**e a staff of technicians a long hard effort to make it commercial.
https://www.livescience.com/43424-who-invented-the-light-bulb.html

Biden was not making a Trump like lie. Biden pointing out that a black-man was one of the keys to modern incandescent lighting so much so that Edison hired him based on Latimer's patented work.

slocumeddie Loc: Inside your head, again

So, in spite of the numerous somersaults performed on this thread, Biden's claim was lie..........

steve03 Loc: long Lsland

Of course anything that doesn't fit Trumps r****t narrative is a lie. No matter the proof or the facts presented.

Kraken Loc: Barry's Bay

Exactly.