Walter D'Arcy Ryan
American lighting engineer and inventor · United States · Scientists · Lived 1870 to 1934 · aged 63
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Something wrong?Walter D'Arcy Ryan was an influential early lighting engineer who worked for General Electric as director of its Illuminating Engineering Laboratory.
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Walter D'Arcy Ryan 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.
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