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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am surprised he got any credit. Edison and Bell stole most of "their" inventions.[/quote]

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I think that's a bit of a overstatement. Edison and Bell were very fine inventors and very fine men. 
I don't think I'd go so far as to say that they stole their inventions.

On another note, here is a book that Latimer wrote about his discoveries/the light bulb in the early 1900s: http://books.google.com/books?id=RlY4AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=lewis+latimer&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RtVvUrPTNqPr2wWZoYGoAQ&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=lewis%20latimer&f=false[/quote]

NP here.  But I read numerous accounts of Edison bribing employees at the patent office to get his hands on new technology amd setting it up that his inventions received favorable treatment.  He was a great inventor....but a good deal of his work was reverse engineered from other's people's work.  And he was widely known to be ruthless in suppressing other inventors' work.  Think Tesla.  Brilliant inventor but a pretty well known asshole. [/quote]

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