Walter d'Arcy Ryan
Walter d'Arcy Ryan (born April 17, 1870 in Kentville , Canada, † March 14, 1934 in Schenectady ) was an American lighting designer.
His parents were James William Ryan and Mary Josephine Rafuse. He worked at General Electric , first in Lynn, Massachusetts at the so-called Commercial Department and from 1908 as head of the Illuminations Laboratory in Schenectady.
In 1907 he built the first full lighting for Niagara Falls. In 1909 he was responsible for the illuminations for the Hudson-Fulton exhibition in New York.
He also created illuminations for the exhibition in Rio de Janeiro, the Washington Arms Conference, the Silver Jubilee of New York, the Altar of Victory in Chicago, the Republic Eagle Sunburst in Kansas City, and the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago. The highlight was the illumination at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915 in San Francisco for the opening ceremony of the Panama Canal . He hung the Tower of Jewels with over 100,000 hand-cut glass crystals from Austria.
During the First World War he worked on searchlights.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.familyorigins.com/users/r/y/a/Charlene-A-Ryan/FAMO1-0001/d45.htm#P1020
- ↑ http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CAN-NS-KINGS/2002-08/1028376441
- ↑ http://www.postcard.org/panamapie02.htm
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ryan, Walter d'Arcy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lighting designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kentville , Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1934 |
| Place of death | Schenectady |