Inventor

By Chris Fuchs

To appreciate fully the imprint a man leaves on society, consider answering this arresting question: What would life be like without Lewis Latimer?

Perhaps, in a word, dark since Latimer, a 19th century black inventor, while working for Thomas Edison pioneered the carbon filament still used in light bulbs today, replacing the original bamboo one invented by Edison, which burned out much quicker.

But Latimer