Daniel McFarlan Moore Totally Explained

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Daniel McFarlan Moore (February 27, 1869 - June 15, 1936) was a U.S. electrical engineer and inventor. He created a novel light source which relied on coronal discharge, similar to a neon light.

Birth and marriage

He was born in Northumberland, Pennsylvania on February 27, 1869. Moore was the son of the Reverend Alexander Davis and Maria Louisa Douglas.

Career

He began his career working for Thomas Edison but started experimenting with producing light from electrical discharges, an idea that Heinrich Geissler had first started in the 1850s. “What’s wrong with my light?” Edison is supposed to have asked, when he learned that Moore had started to tinker with light-producing tubes of gas as a potential replacement for the incandescent bulb. Moore is reported undiplomatically to have replied, “It’s too small, too hot and too red.” He left to form his own company.
Moore devised his discharge lighting starting in 1896.

Death

On June 15, 1936, at the age of 67, Moore was shot to death on the lawn of his home in East Orange, New Jersey, by an unemployed inventor who became enraged after finding that an invention he filed for, was already the subject of a patent granted to Moore.

Patents

Electrical Light Display (1893)
Phosphorescent Electrical Lighting (1898)
Fire for Joints in Vacuum Tubes (1912)

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