Daniel McFarlan Moore

Daniel McFarlan Moore was a U.S. electrical engineer and inventor. He developed a novel light source, the Moore lamp, and a business that produced them in the early 1900s. The Moore lamp was the first commercially viable lightsource based on gas discharges instead of incandescence it was the predecessor to contemporary neon lighting and fluorescent lighting. In his later career Moore developed a miniature neon lamp that was extensively used in electronic displays, as well as vacuum tubes that were used in early television systems.

He was born in Northumberland, Pennsylvania on February 27, 1869. Moore was the son of the Reverend Alexander Davis and Maria Louisa Douglas Moore. He graduated from Lehigh University in 1889. Moore married Mary Alice Elliott, of New York City, on June 5, 1895. They had three children Dorothy Mae Moore, Elliott McFarlan Moore and Beatrice Jean Moore, .

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