Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Lewis Howard Latimer

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Lewis Howard Latimer was an inventor and patent draftsman. His inventions included an evaporative air conditioner, an improved process for manufacturing carbon filaments for light bulbs, and an improved toilet system for railroad cars. In 1884, he joined the Edison Electric Light Company where he worked as a draftsman and wrote the first book on electric lighting. The Lewis H. Latimer House, his landmarked former residence, is located near the Latimer Projects at 34-41 137th Street in Flushing, Queens, New York City.

Inventor | September 4, 1848 - December 11, 1928

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Tomorrow may be fair, however stormy the sky of today.

Lewis Howard Latimer

Habit is a powerful means of advancement, and the habit of eternal vigilance and diligence, rarely fails to bring a substantial reward.

Lewis Howard Latimer

Some blessings have been ours in the past, and these may be repeated or even multiplied.

Lewis Howard Latimer

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast," and is as necessary to life as the act of breathing.

Lewis Howard Latimer

There must be vistas flying out beyond, that promise more than present conditions yield.

Lewis Howard Latimer

For who would live if life held no allurements?

Lewis Howard Latimer

Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples.

Lewis Howard Latimer

We create our future, by well improving present opportunities: however few and small they are.

Lewis Howard Latimer

The two fortresses which are the last to yield in the human heart, are hope and pride.

Lewis Howard Latimer