Fire Detection and Alarm 6
Fire Detection and Alarm 6 : Benjamin Electric Manufacturing Company: He was a hard working member of the N. E. L. A. and other electrical societies. After his death, Benjamin Electric Ltd. Company continued on with his legacy. Two of the most noticeable accomplishments were the "Benjamin" Flood Lighting system in Westminster Abbey for the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation in 1953 (Benjamin Electric Ltd. Manufactured equipment used by Holophane Ltd. at Coronation) and the Tower Bridge of London in 1964. Quote from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, "EIIR The Coronation Booklet" - published November 9, 1953: "In conclusion, we feel it would be of interest to quote the words of Dr. Ward Harrison, the eminent American Lighting Engineer and President of the International Commission on Illumination, who in a recent lecture to the Illuminating Engineering Society in London, said: "I have not yet seen any indoor illumination to equal the light of Westminster Abbey for Coronation. In that problem there were three prime requirements, distinctly individual, and almost mutually exclusive. For the first time lighting designed to make television and colour motion picture photography possible was likewise the most effective that could have been devised for viewing the great spectacle by those people seated in the Abbey; for people at great distances from the crowing it was just as necessary to have 120 Ft. c. there as it is on the stage of a theatre, and yet it was provided in a way that was infinitely more kind to the principals who took part and who continued under it for some three hours. For that installation, and for the genius of those who make it possible, my admiration is unbounded
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