Daniel McFarlan Moore (1869 - 1933) was a U.S. electrical engineer and inventor. 1869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii). ...

Biography

Moore began his career working for Thomas Edison but started experimenting with producing light from electrical discharges, an idea that Henrich Geissler had first started in the 1850s. Moore opinion of Edison's incandescent lamp was that "It's too small, too hot, and too red." Feeling that glass sealing techniques had advanced enough to make electrical discharge lamps commercially viable, he devised the "Moore Lamp' in 1898. The Moore Lamp involved glass tubes from which the air had been removed and a different gas inserted, which would glow when a current was passed through it. The design of Neon lights would later be inspired by this design. Moore lamps failed to become popular, leading to the failure of his company, and Moore decided to work for General Electric. This is the current Improvement Drive collaboration! Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an inventor and businessman who developed many important devices. ... The incandescent light bulb uses a glowing wire filament heated to white-hot by electrical resistance, to generate light (a process known as thermal radiation). ... A neon lamp is a gas discharge lamp containing neon gas at low pressure. ... The General Electric Company, or GE (NYSE: GE) is a multinational technology and services company. ...

Moore is best known for his invention of the glow lamp in 1920, which relied on the physical principle of coronal discharge. Glow lamps were used as indicators in instrument panels until they were replaced by LEDs. External links LEd Category: TeX ...

Moore was murdered by another inventor who, upon finding that his idea had already been patented by Moore, laid in wait and shot Moore outside of his house in East Orange, New Jersey.

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