Word: mcfarlane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Inventors. A shy man, pallid from years spent indoors over books and work tables, attended the demonstrations in Schenectady last week. He was Daniel McFarlan Moore, 58, known well wherever electrical technicians congregate, but little elsewhere. Graduated from Lehigh University in 1889 he at once found work with Thomas Alva Edison's Edison Co. Later he organized his own light and electric companies and, after 18 years, sold them to General Electric. Four years ago he invented vacuum bulbs used in telephotography (sending still pictures by electricity or radio); three years ago he improved the bulb so that...
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Progress in lighting was evident. Oldsmobile and Oakland had added the tilt-ray control, already used by Cadillac; and McFarlan showed the Ryan head lamp which gives an unusually diffused light, including a strong sidewise light which makes the spot light unnecessary...
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