IT HAS BEEN PROPOSED to FORM A SOCIETY...

In this article that first appeared in LD+A's IES Centennial Issue in January 2006, lighting's preeminent historian describes how the industry's giants banded together to create the IES. Most of the men who were the organizers, founders and early members of the Iluminating Engineering Society were born as the American Civil War was ending, or not long after. Their parents raised families in a society transformed by war.