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 in the so-called Commercial Department ( Commercial Division) and from 1908 as Head of Illuminations Laboratory in Schenectady.

In 1907 he built the first full illumination of Niagara Falls. In 1909 he was responsible for the illuminations of the Hudson - Fulton exhibition to 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 World Expo 1933 in Chicago The coronation was the illumination at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915 in San Francisco for the opening ceremony of the Panama Canal. The Tower of Jewels, he hung with more than 100,000 hand-cut glass crystals from Austria.

In World War I he worked on searchlights.