J. B. Colt Company

The J. B. Colt Company was a producer of lamps and acetylene products based in New York City, headed by James Bennett Colt and in operation from 1891 to 1911. ^[1] Among its products was the Colt Acetylene Flash Lantern used by the American military.

The company was acquired by its competitor, the Acetylene Apparatus Company of Chicago, in 1911. ^[2]

A former Colt employee (1894-1896), Edwin J. Hadley, went on to invent cinema equipment, including a 1904 device to reduce image flicker. ^{[3] [4]}

References

1. Long. Elias A.; Pearce B. Bland (1922). Acetylene Journal: Devoted to Acetylene Lighting and Kindred Topics ... Acetylene journal Publishing Company. pp. 613–.
2. Ebbe Almqvist (2003). History of Industrial Gases. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 344–. ISBN   978-1-4615-0197-8.
3. Gary D. Rhodes (24 November 2011). The Perils of Moviegoing in America: 1896-1950. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 77–. ISBN   978-1-4411-8865-6.
4. Charles Musser; Carol Nelson (8 March 2015). High-Class Moving Pictures: Lyman H. Howe and the Forgotten Era of Traveling Exhibition, 1880-1920. Princeton University Press. pp. 52–. ISBN   978-1-4008-7272-5.