Visibility Meter
notes: label: Description
content: Matthew Luckiesh (1883 -1967), a physicist who served as Director of the General Electric Lighting Research Laboratory at the Nela Park National Lamps Works in East Cleveland, Ohio, developed several theories on color and its physiological effect on people. Frank K. Moss (1898-1943) was an electrical engineer at the Nela Park National Lamp Works. Working together in the 1930s, Luckiesh and Moss developed a visibility meter.
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content: Ref: Walter Kaempfert, “A New Device Tells How Much Light a Reader Requires,” New York Times (Oct. 15, 1935), p. XX4.
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content: Matthew Luckiesh and Frank Moss, The Science of Seeing (New York, 1937).
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content: Matthew Luckiesh and Frank Moss, “Apparatus for Measuring Visual Accuity,” U.S. Patent 2,171,881 (Sept. 5, 1939).
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content: “Dr. Matthew Luckiesh is Dead; G. E. Lighting Expert was 84,” New York Times (Nov. 3, 1967), p. 43.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Gift of American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0837.23
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content: 1986.0837.23
label: accession number
content: 1986.0837
objectType: label: Object Name
content: visibility meter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 7 5/8 in x 3 3/4 in; 4.445 cm x 19.3675 cm x 9.525 cm