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''R.R. Beard Ltd is unrelated to [[Richard Beard]], the British licensee of the Daguerrotype process.'' | ''R.R. Beard Ltd is unrelated to [[Richard Beard]], the British licensee of the Daguerrotype process.'' | ||
| − | '''R.R. Beard Ltd''' was a maker of cinematographic and photographic equipment in England. The company was founded in 1882 by Robert Royou Beard (1856-1932).<ref>[http://www.photonbeard.com/history.html Company history] at the [http://www.photonbeard.com/index.html Photon Beard] website.</ref> He was apprenticed to a company of brassworkers, whose products included magic lanterns. Beard devised a high-pressure regulator for oxygen cylinders, allowing improvements to gas-lit lanterns, and set up the company to make his regulators. The firm went on to make a range of other cinema-projection and lighting equipment, as well as photographic enlarging easels (masking frames). | + | '''R.R. Beard Ltd''' was a maker of cinematographic and photographic equipment in England. The company was founded in 1882 by Robert Royou Beard (1856-1932).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190314102131/http://www.photonbeard.com/history.html Company history] at the [https://web.archive.org/web/20191009041800/http://www.photonbeard.com/index.html Photon Beard] website (archived).</ref> He was apprenticed to a company of brassworkers, whose products included magic lanterns. Beard devised a high-pressure regulator for oxygen cylinders, allowing improvements to gas-lit lanterns, and set up the company to make his regulators. The firm went on to make a range of other cinema-projection and lighting equipment, as well as photographic enlarging easels (masking frames). |
| − | Beard, now trading as Photon Beard after a merger with another lighting company, making low-energy lighting equipment, closed down business in | + | Beard, now trading as Photon Beard after a merger with another lighting company, making low-energy lighting equipment, closed down business in 2020<ref>[https://www.lightingrumours.com/photon-beard-11615 Photon Beard closes after 138 years] at the [https://www.lightingrumours.com/ Lighting Rumours] website.</ref>. |
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R.R. Beard Ltd is unrelated to Richard Beard, the British licensee of the Daguerrotype process.
R.R. Beard Ltd was a maker of cinematographic and photographic equipment in England. The company was founded in 1882 by Robert Royou Beard (1856-1932).[1] He was apprenticed to a company of brassworkers, whose products included magic lanterns. Beard devised a high-pressure regulator for oxygen cylinders, allowing improvements to gas-lit lanterns, and set up the company to make his regulators. The firm went on to make a range of other cinema-projection and lighting equipment, as well as photographic enlarging easels (masking frames).
Beard, now trading as Photon Beard after a merger with another lighting company, making low-energy lighting equipment, closed down business in 2020[2].
Notes
- ↑ Company history at the Photon Beard website (archived).
- ↑ Photon Beard closes after 138 years at the Lighting Rumours website.
