During a campaign event today Democratic Party candidate for President Joe Biden said that we as a nation need to teach students more history, then bizarrely claimed a black man invented the light bulb, not Thomas Edison.
“I cannot guarantee everything gets solved in four years, but I guarantee you one thing, it will be a whole heck of a lot better.
“We will move a lot further down the road. Why in God’s name don’t we teach history in history classes? A black man invented the light bulb, not a white guy named Edison. Okay? There’s so much. Did anybody know?”
Sorry, Joe, nobody knew that a black man invented the lightbulb because that, in fact, did not happen.
While Thomas Edison was not the only inventor or company working on creating the light bulb Edison was the first to create a practical and inexpensive light bulb.
