just found out somthing cool! last nite not for my uncle there would have been no stadium flood lights no nite games he worked for edison for awhile then went ge caught this in a show about lights, love it cheers If You Build it They Will Come: How a GE Engineer Invented Night Baseball 100s baseball season again. Night games are as common as peanuts and Cracker Jack these days, but that has not always been the case. For many decades baseball was a daytime pursuit. But weekday games didn’t mesh with the company clock and stands were often empty. Until Robert J. Swackhamer’s homerun. Swackhamer, a GE lighting engineer, was thinking about freight trains, not baseball, when he hit upon his idea. In the 1920s, a railroad company asked him to design an array of high-wattage lamps that would allow it to keep rail yards open overnight. The lights worked so well that Swackhamer convinced his bosses to test the arrays at the General Electric Athletic Field at Lynn, Mass. On June 24, 1927, five towers supporting 72 flood lamps lit up the first night baseball game in history between Lynn and Salem. Salem won 7-2 and the packed stands, which included players from the Boston Red Sox and the Washington Americans who played in Boston that afternoon, got the GE sales team thinking.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:24:16 +0000
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