>>12737692>LatimerHe undeniably had engineering genius and was extremely intelligent but the claims they made up about his reason for making the improvements to the filament of the light-bulb don't even make sense.
>We're not going to mention he invented the filament?>To create a better standard of living for people who had only just been freed from slavery?I mean, we know so little about his life and opinions that I bet you the fucking writer just stuck that line in there.
The rich were the only people who could afford light-bulbs and indoor electricity at all in the beginning.
Poorfags probably wouldn't have seen lightbulbs for a while, and when they did it would be at businesses and not in their household.
