Former captain of the Connecticut State Police and chief inspector of the State Motor Vehicle Department. A consulting engineer and leading figure in the fledgling automobile industry and advocate for improved safety. He was an important inventor with almost two dozen valuable patents for engine improvements, tools and accessories.
McMurtry took time out to invent some fun things too for the stage, where he apparently threw caution to the wind, e.g. U.S. patent # 1,021,787 (1912) for his apparatus for making high tension sparks between electrodes hidden in dancers' clothing and shoes. Apparently he found volunteers to try it! On a darkened stage with multiple dancers, he wrote, the effect was "sparkling and spectacular." Note the comment in the very moving tribute by the Journal of the Society of Automotive Engineers (attached) attesting to McMurtry's "very intriguing" sense of humor.
father: George Gibson McMurtry (1840-1915)
Spouse: Miriam S. (Falconer) (1887-1954)
McMurtry took time out to invent some fun things too for the stage, where he apparently threw caution to the wind, e.g. U.S. patent # 1,021,787 (1912) for his apparatus for making high tension sparks between electrodes hidden in dancers' clothing and shoes. Apparently he found volunteers to try it! On a darkened stage with multiple dancers, he wrote, the effect was "sparkling and spectacular." Note the comment in the very moving tribute by the Journal of the Society of Automotive Engineers (attached) attesting to McMurtry's "very intriguing" sense of humor.
father: George Gibson McMurtry (1840-1915)
Spouse: Miriam S. (Falconer) (1887-1954)
Former captain of the Connecticut State Police and chief inspector of the State Motor Vehicle Department. A consulting engineer and leading figure in the fledgling automobile industry and advocate for improved safety. He was an important inventor with almost two dozen valuable patents for engine improvements, tools and accessories.
McMurtry took time out to invent some fun things too for the stage, where he apparently threw caution to the wind, e.g. U.S. patent # 1,021,787 (1912) for his apparatus for making high tension sparks between electrodes hidden in dancers' clothing and shoes. Apparently he found volunteers to try it! On a darkened stage with multiple dancers, he wrote, the effect was "sparkling and spectacular." Note the comment in the very moving tribute by the Journal of the Society of Automotive Engineers (attached) attesting to McMurtry's "very intriguing" sense of humor.
father: George Gibson McMurtry (1840-1915)
Spouse: Miriam S. (Falconer) (1887-1954)
McMurtry took time out to invent some fun things too for the stage, where he apparently threw caution to the wind, e.g. U.S. patent # 1,021,787 (1912) for his apparatus for making high tension sparks between electrodes hidden in dancers' clothing and shoes. Apparently he found volunteers to try it! On a darkened stage with multiple dancers, he wrote, the effect was "sparkling and spectacular." Note the comment in the very moving tribute by the Journal of the Society of Automotive Engineers (attached) attesting to McMurtry's "very intriguing" sense of humor.
father: George Gibson McMurtry (1840-1915)
Spouse: Miriam S. (Falconer) (1887-1954)
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