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CLEVELAND, OHIO -October
21, 1979 marks the
100th Anniversary of
Thomas A. Edison's
development of the
first practical incandescent
light bulb. In honor of the
famous in writer, a year
long Centennial of Light is
being sponsored by the
Thomas Alva Edison Foun
dation of Southfield Michi
gan. 'A recent issue of
Edison Centennial News,
official publication of the
international centennial,
honored one of Edison!
associates, Lewis Howard
Latimer.
Latimer, a black in
ventor best known for pa
tenting a process for making
carbon filaments, was one
of the original Edison Pion
eers, that select group of 28
of Edison's friends and
fellow investors formed in
1918. To be a member one
had to have been a dose
associate of Edison before '
188S.
Latimer came from
humble beginnings and had "
little formal education,
yet he became a respected
investor, draftsman, and
engineer. Also, he was an
author, poet and musi
can. William H. Meadow
croft, historian for the
Edison Pioneers, and
secretaty to Edison, wrote
upon Latimer's death on
December 11 1928, at the
e of 80, "We hardly
mourn his inevitable gomg
so much as we rejoice in
pleasant memory at
having been assoicated with
rum m a great work for
all peoples under a great
man." !
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most famous submissions at
that time in his career were
drawings for Alexander Gra
ham Bell's telephone. '
First patent
It was not long before
Latimer began drawing dia
grams for his own in
ventions. On Deb. 10, 1873,
he received his first patent
for an improved washroom
for railroad passenger cars,
which won him recognition
and a position with Hiram
S. Maxim, the inventor of
the machine gun, at the
United States Electric
Lighting Co in Bridge
port Conn. This was in
1878. During this time
Maxim was ckiming he
invented
Seif-taught draftsman uivenrea tne incandescent
Latimer, the son of an "P ?ul eveniuauy ne lost
escaped slave, was born on t ,
Sept, 4, 1848, in Chelsea, While ere, Latimer
Mass. He read voraciously as "tented patented an
lad, wrote short stories, ""Pveu process ior
and taught himself how to mawng carbon tilaments in
draw. Later, as an office bulbs, which was used
boy in the Bosten patent t0 make me Maxim
office of Corsby and lighting systems. He also
Gould, he taught himself assisted in installing
the principles of drafting, me systems in new York,
and was rewarded by .being "uladelphia and Canada,
iftiade' a draftsman fofOit aad pedi estabfishvthen
comDarrv. ' lnt. Maxlm-Weston electdi
u us-e U&1 oul iaciory in
Soon he was chief Enffan(i. .
draftsman, pnpng Jojn Edjfon ,
drawings of inventions ln ij2, Latimer re
which were submitted to turned to the UjSto work,
the UJ5.' Patent Office in and m igg4 he joined the
Washington. One of his Edison Electric Light Co.
Six and a half million tons of rock had to be moved to build
the Great Pyramid of Cheops, The work was done without
the us of machinery of any kind -not even the wheel I
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as a draftsman and engin
eer. '
By this time, Latimer
had become an expert elec
trical engineer. And, in 1 890,
he published the first
technical - electrical engin
eering . ' book, "In cades
cent Electric Lighting - A
Practical Description of the
Edison System."
Later he transferred to
the legal department of the
Edison General Electric Co.,
where he served as an expert
witness on Edison patents in
various patent lawsuits
brought by and against
Edison. When Edison
General merged with
Houston Electric Co. io
create the General Electric
Co., arid then later develop
ed a Board of Patent Con
grol, Latimer was appointed
a full-time consultant.
He continued to act as
a consultant to various firms
until his retirement in 1924. "
Latimer, like most of the
Edison Pioneers, was hired
because of a particular ex
pertise. Edison recognized
in each of the Pioneers not
only a special talent, but
an indefatigable ability to
get things done and make
things work. Lewis Howard
Latimer fit that mold perfectly.
73 Just The Right
Age For A Teacher
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.'degrees, arc good,, getting u
old teaches you so much
mprc.
by Gerry Johnson
and was convinced that it
was the right way to educate
children.,;
After a trip to Europe to
compare the English version
ofMontcssori to the Amer
ican version, she" founded
the Mon tcssori Fam ily
Chapter Center in 1963.
V "We've grown from 50 to
,200 children," Mrs. Gad-
.? paillc said. "We recently
; movcd into a $2 million
- building on two acres of
land."
The facilities include
' about an acre of playground
and a greenhouse and gar-
aen. i ney are hoping to
build their own television
and radio station in the near
future from which they will
broadcast shows dealing
with the Montessori method.
Originally from Elling
ton, Conn., a small tobacco
growing community in the
middle of the state, Mrs.
Gadpaillc went to Radcliffe
College in 1923 but quit
when she learned of How
ard University, a black
school in, Washington, D.C.
"I wasn't around other
"At 73, Mrs. Mac Gad
paillc of Dorchester, Mass.'
works just as hard as her
mother taught her to as a
little girl. ?
v "By the time 1 was six I
could cook and clean and
had several chores to dp,"
Mrs; Gadpaille told a writer
from The National Council
on the Aging.
Mrs. Gadpaille is the ori
ginator and present director
of the Boston area Montes
sori Family Center, In 1962
she was exposed to the
ine three to six venr nMc- Wacks when I was a child,
' " .i shc said, "so when I heard
about this school for black
students that had black
teachers, I decided I had
to go there."
Mrs. Gadpaille had
planned to be a doctor but
after taking a .course in
comparative education, she
devoted the rest of her col
lege career to education,
receiving a bachelor's de
gree in education.
Now working with her
third generation of children
at the center, Mrs. Gapajlle
has no plans for retiring.'
"I'll be working for the
next 25 years," she said. "I
don't believe in aging. I
think it's a myth. We're
always told we're going to
get old and die but I've
found out so much of aging
depends on your mental at
titude." Mrs. Gapaille feels that
most older persons could be
as active as she is.
"There are plenty of peo
ple just wasting their lives,"
she said. "They could be
enriching the life of a child,
for example, Older people
really make the best teach
ers, because while college
IN LOS ANGELES
County, older adults are en
titled to Ggjd Cards .which
allow them free admission
to activities sponsored by
the nine campuses in the
Los Angeles Colleges Sys
tem. ' ;.; ... ;.
-The GPld Card program,
which was the first of its
kind, in the country, started
in 1972 at Valley College
in the San Fernando Valley I
About v 16,000 cards have
been issued to date.
Older persons not only
attend classes but are given
help in finding employment,
a factor that has led p
greater! attendance by sen
iors in credit classes. In
fact, at Valley College, the
senior student population
increased 500 , percent in
one year.
THE STEREOTYPE of
poor health among older
persons is not supported
factually. According to a
study by R. M, Campbell, a
PhD. from Houston, Texas,
81 percent of older persons
are mobile and self-sufficient
and 14 percent are
completely free of chronic
conditions, diseases or impairments.
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