Walter D'Arcy Ryan
American lighting engineer and inventor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Walter D'Arcy Ryan (Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada, April 17, 1870 – Schenectady, New York, US, March 14, 1934) was an influential early lighting engineer who worked for General Electric as director of its Illuminating Engineering Laboratory. He pioneered skyscraper illumination, designed the Scintillator colored searchlights display, and was responsible for the lighting of the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco and the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, in addition to the first complete illumination of Niagara Falls. He combined illumination into both an art and a science.[1]
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Walter D'Arcy Ryan | |
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Born | (1870-04-17)April 17, 1870 Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Died | March 14, 1934(1934-03-14) (aged 63) |
Employer | Lighting engineer |
Organization | General Electric |
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