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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Lewis Latimer/Google His exquisite patent drawings and keen understanding of how to translate technological ideas into schematics on the printed page were so highly regarded that when Alexander Graham Bell retained the firm to help him put together his patent application for the telephone, Latimer was assigned to do the work.

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Story of TESLA Motors: Beginning, Fight, Survival, and Success

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The Beginning (2003). Martin Eberhard , Marc Tarpenning the company’s first CEO and CFO respectively, started the company in 2003 and named it Tesla motors in the honors of Nikola Tesla a great inventor of all time and who changed the course of electrical technology with his A.C Contrary to common belief, Elon Musk did not found Tesla.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

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Neutral vdex34 @ Apr 19th 2009 8:18PM for the people bitch about garages, how about something that plus into your outdoor outlets, i got like 6 of them in my yard, at least 2 in the front of the house (and my house is over 100 years old) Highly Ranked Decoy @ Apr 19th 2009 8:56PM You can afford a Tesla, but not a garage? Neutral ???? @