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Joel Solon Spira (March 1, 1927 – April 8, 2015) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and business magnate. He invented a version of the light-dimmer switch for use in homes around the United States and led his Lutron Electronics Company into the production of lighting controllers.
Jun 6, 2010 · Joel Spira was aiming for mood lighting when he invented the solid-state light dimmer switch. More than 50 years later, his company, Lutron, is recognized as an energy efficiency pioneer.
- Barbara Mulligan
Apr 15, 2015 · Mr. Spira was a physicist working for a military contractor in the late 1950s when, puttering in a spare room of his Manhattan apartment, he invented a way to reduce the light output of an...
Oct 24, 2015 · From a dining room to a den of romance: That's the transformation the dimming switch first promised. Since 1959, Joel Spira's invention has promised heightened passion — if only you dial it...
Nov 13, 2017 · To those in the lighting industry the name Joel Spira is one that most are familiar with, and if not his name then the company he founded, Lutron Electronics. We all read in 2015 about his sad passing at the age of 88, but a long well-lived life it was.
JOEL SOLON SPIRA, a prodigious innovator who changed the way we illuminate our homes by inventing the first solid state electronic dimmer, and founded and built Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. into a global company selling a wide array of lighting controls, passed away at his home on April 8, 2015, at age 88.
Apr 10, 2015 · Spira, who founded the Pennsylvania-based company in 1961 with his wife, Ruth, is perhaps best known for inventing the dimmer switch, a lighting element that has become an ubiquitous accessory in homes and businesses worldwide.
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