Electric Lamp. Patent No. 247,097. Application filed April 18, 1881; patented September 13, 1881

by Lewis H. Latimer, Joseph V. Nichols

$45,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

Washington D.C. Norris Peters Photo-Lithographer for the United States Patent Office, 1881 . First edition, extremely rare, one of 150 copies printed, of the most important patent of the first major African-American inventor. Although Latimer did not invent the electric light bulb despite Joe Biden’s claim on 3 September 2020 , his innovations in the design of carbon filaments, described in this patent, vastly

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