Headwaters Park

Historical marker location:

333 South Clinton Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana

( Marker can be reached from South Clinton Street (U.S. 27) 0.3 miles south of East 4th Street, on the right when traveling south.)

The first public demonstration of the electric light bulb was given by Thomas Edison in Menlo Park, New Jersey, but the first practical incandescent light bulb was invented by Lewis Howard Latimer, who was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, but lived in Indiana for a time. Latimer was also the first African American to be employed as an engineer by the U.S. Patent Office.