Matthew Luckiesh Photographs 1909-1991 1909-1965

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Matthew Luckiesh Photographs 1909-1991 1909-1965

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Matthew Luckiesh (1883-1967) was an authority and pioneer in the research of light, lighting, color, vision, and seeing. Known as "the father of the Science of Seeing," he was a physicist at the Incandescent Lamp Department of the General Electric Company in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of 422 black and white photographs, 21 color photographs, and 101 black and white negatives.

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Luckiesh, Matthew, 1883-1967

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Matthew Luckiesh (1883-1967), an authority and pioneer in the research of light, lighting, color, vision, and seeing, also known as the "father of the Science of Seeing", was born on September 14, 1883 in Maquoketa, Iowa. He was the second son of John and Frances Root Luckiesh. Matthew had an older brother, Frank (William Frank), and a younger brother, Edward. He graduated from high school in Maquoketa in 1899 at the age of 15. Matthew came from a background where hard work was very...