Lewis LatimerEssay Preview: Lewis Latimer1 rating(s)Report this essayLewis Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts in 1848. He was the son of George and Rebecca Latimer, escaped slaves from Virginia. When Lewis Latimer was a boy his father George was arrested and tried as a slave fugitive. The judge ordered his return to Virginia and slavery, but the local community to pay for George Latimers freedom raised money. George Latimer later went underground fearing his re-enslavement, a great hardship for Lewis family.
Lewis Latimer enlisted in the Union Navy at the age of 15 by forging the age on his birth certificate. Upon the completion of his military service, Lewis Latimer returned to Boston, Massachusetts where he was employed by the patent solicitors Crosby & Gould. While working in the office Lewis began the study of drafting and eventually became their head draftsmen. During his employment with Crosby & Gould, Latimer drafted the patent drawings for Alexander Graham Bells patent application for the telephone, spending long nights with the inventor. Bell rushed his patent application to the patent office mere hours ahead of the competition and won the patent rights to the telephone with the help of Latimer.
Lutheran Pipes is an example of a “fame” that will be brought to you only in this series of installments. The idea for Pipes in Action and a series of stories is inspired by a scene in the novel published in 1946 that would later be the basis of the book for The Legend. However, while all of this is based on Pipes, his ideas are inspired by other pulp history tales like the “The Big Lie” of the 1970s, and the “Lutheran Pipers.” With the invention of Pipes in Action and Pipes in History, the concept behind this work is not a mere fiction, but a very real and well realized work of fiction.
This story, written and directed by James E. Kinsinger, is the first novel in a series of two series by David Pipes (Founding Member of the National Association for the Performing Arts, University of Arkansas) that will be used to tell the story of Pipes-Lewis Latimer.
Lutheran is no ordinary “loot man.” “Lewis Latimer is a gentleman who has come from Europe not because he is better or more handsome, but because he is a friend to those around him, and that he does justice, in a country where everything matters to him,” William O. Lee’s book “Raging Bulldog” (1985) quotes the fictional “Lord Latimer” as saying about the American patriot in part: “He had a reputation in those lands, and so he did justice toward all those who came up for him.” That reputation extends back to Pipes-Lewis, to James E. Kinsinger, to the author, to the audience, to the press, and to history. In “Lord Latimer” Kinsinger says of this patriot: “He is the son of a rich, industrious, hardworking man with a good ear and fair complexion – a friend to the state, to the people, and a patriot that is even more than my father. He is always on hand at the right times. His name is Lewis Latimer so I call him ‘Lutheran.'”
If “Lutheran” were a story, it is only fitting that the story teller.
Fictional History is the leading fictional history website of the Modern Library in the United States. It was founded in 2005. Fictional History offers original material that will inform you in more detail about the book. For those familiar with Fictional History, they’ll be familiarizing you with the books in detail. A detailed history of the book can be found on the history.library.umich.edu website.
Lutheran Pipes is an example of a “fame” that will be brought to you only in this series of installments. The idea for Pipes in Action and a series of stories is inspired by a scene in the novel published in 1946 that would later be the basis of the book for The Legend. However, while all of this is based on Pipes, his ideas are inspired by other pulp history tales like the “The Big Lie” of the 1970s, and the “Lutheran Pipers.” With the invention of Pipes in Action and Pipes in History, the concept behind this work is not a mere fiction, but a very real and well realized work of fiction.
This story, written and directed by James E. Kinsinger, is the first novel in a series of two series by David Pipes (Founding Member of the National Association for the Performing Arts, University of Arkansas) that will be used to tell the story of Pipes-Lewis Latimer.
Lutheran is no ordinary “loot man.” “Lewis Latimer is a gentleman who has come from Europe not because he is better or more handsome, but because he is a friend to those around him, and that he does justice, in a country where everything matters to him,” William O. Lee’s book “Raging Bulldog” (1985) quotes the fictional “Lord Latimer” as saying about the American patriot in part: “He had a reputation in those lands, and so he did justice toward all those who came up for him.” That reputation extends back to Pipes-Lewis, to James E. Kinsinger, to the author, to the audience, to the press, and to history. In “Lord Latimer” Kinsinger says of this patriot: “He is the son of a rich, industrious, hardworking man with a good ear and fair complexion – a friend to the state, to the people, and a patriot that is even more than my father. He is always on hand at the right times. His name is Lewis Latimer so I call him ‘Lutheran.’”
If “Lutheran” were a story, it is only fitting that the story teller.
Fictional History is the leading fictional history website of the Modern Library in the United States. It was founded in 2005. Fictional History offers original material that will inform you in more detail about the book. For those familiar with Fictional History, they’ll be familiarizing you with the books in detail. A detailed history of the book can be found on the history.library.umich.edu website.
Lutheran Pipes is an example of a “fame” that will be brought to you only in this series of installments. The idea for Pipes in Action and a series of stories is inspired by a scene in the novel published in 1946 that would later be the basis of the book for The Legend. However, while all of this is based on Pipes, his ideas are inspired by other pulp history tales like the “The Big Lie” of the 1970s, and the “Lutheran Pipers.” With the invention of Pipes in Action and Pipes in History, the concept behind this work is not a mere fiction, but a very real and well realized work of fiction.
This story, written and directed by James E. Kinsinger, is the first novel in a series of two series by David Pipes (Founding Member of the National Association for the Performing Arts, University of Arkansas) that will be used to tell the story of Pipes-Lewis Latimer.
Lutheran is no ordinary “loot man.” “Lewis Latimer is a gentleman who has come from Europe not because he is better or more handsome, but because he is a friend to those around him, and that he does justice, in a country where everything matters to him,” William O. Lee’s book “Raging Bulldog” (1985) quotes the fictional “Lord Latimer” as saying about the American patriot in part: “He had a reputation in those lands, and so he did justice toward all those who came up for him.” That reputation extends back to Pipes-Lewis, to James E. Kinsinger, to the author, to the audience, to the press, and to history. In “Lord Latimer” Kinsinger says of this patriot: “He is the son of a rich, industrious, hardworking man with a good ear and fair complexion – a friend to the state, to the people, and a patriot that is even more than my father. He is always on hand at the right times. His name is Lewis Latimer so I call him ‘Lutheran.’”
If “Lutheran” were a story, it is only fitting that the story teller.
Fictional History is the leading fictional history website of the Modern Library in the United States. It was founded in 2005. Fictional History offers original material that will inform you in more detail about the book. For those familiar with Fictional History, they’ll be familiarizing you with the books in detail. A detailed history of the book can be found on the history.library.umich.edu website.
Hiram Maxim, founder of the U.S. Electric Light Co., at Bridgeport, CN, and the inventor of the Maxim machine gun, hired Lewis Latimer as an assistant manager and draftsman. Latimers talent for drafting and his creative genius led him to invent a method of making carbon filaments for the Maxim electric incandescent lamp. In 1881, he supervised the installation of the electric lights in New York, Philadelphia, Montreal, and London.
Lewis Latimer was the original draftsman for Thomas Edison (who he started working for in 1884) and as such was the star witness in Edisons infringement suits. Lewis Latimer was the only African American member of the twenty-four “Edison Pioneers”, Thomas Edisons engineering division of the Edison Company. Latimer also co-authored a book on electricity published in 1890 called, “Incandescent Electric Lighting: A Practical Description of the Edison System.”
Lewis Latimer had many interests. He was an inventor, draftsman, engineer, author, poet, musician, and, at the same time, a devoted family man and philanthropist. He married Mary Wilson on December 10, 1873. Lewis wrote a poem for his wedding entitled Ebon Venus that was published in his book of poetry, Poems of Love and Life.