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Mary Hallock-Greenewalt played the piano with the Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh Orchestras as a concert soloist, invented her own color
organ that she called a Sarabet after her mother, and, in her
pursuit of the art she named Nourathar by combining the Arabic
words for essence of light, she had to invent the machinery
required as well. Numbered among her inventions are the rheostat
that allos the gradual fading of light, the mercury switch, and was
among the earliest developers of colored gel filters for tinting
theatrical lights. Her patent for the rheostat became the subject
of an infirngement lawsuit in the lat 1920s against such large
corporations as General Electric, a lawsuit that she ultimately won
in 1936. This volume collects all eleven of her technology patents,
revealing the refinement and evolution of the Sarabet. These
patents also enable a clear evaluation of her contributions to
visual music, since, as Dr. Betancourt notes in his introduction,
the patents allow a much clearer determination of her place in
history and a peer-reviewed statement of her accomplishments
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