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Carbon


1975 Don Wilson, pitcher (Astro), dies at 29 of carbon monoxide poisoning

1922 Dick Martin, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor/comedian, Laugh-In, Carbon Copy

1907 Roy K Marshall, Glen Carbon, Illinois, TV scientist, Nature of Things

1892 U.S. Patent Office says J. W. Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp

1881 Lewis Latimer invents and patents electric lamp with a carbon filament

1879 Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow

1806 Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood


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