Daniel McFarlan Moore
American scientist (1869-1936) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 67
Daniel McFarlan Moore was an American electrical engineer and inventor. He developed a novel light source, the "Moore lamp", and a business that produced them in the early 1900s.
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1904 photograph illustrating interior lighting by the first installation of Moore tubes in a hardware store in Newark, New Jersey.
Three miniature neon lamps; each is about 0.75 inches long. The voltages across the lamps are left: DC (left lead positive), middle: DC (right lead positive), and right: AC.Awards
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The Moore lamp was the first commercially viable light-source based on gas discharges instead of incandescence; it was the predecessor to contemporary neon lighting and fluorescent lighting. In his later career Moore developed a miniature neon lamp that was extensively used in electronic displays, as well as vacuum tubes that were used in early television systems.
