The seeds of the Lutron story began in the 1950’s in Brooklyn, New York where Joel Spira's story started in his makeshift lab in the apartment he and his wife, Ruth shared. Joel Spira was a young physicist that was fascinated by the aesthetic manipulation of light; Spira commandeered the spare bedroom in the apartment and set out to invent a solid-state device that would enable people to vary the intensity of the lights in their homes, a modern day dimmer.
Everything changed in 1959, when Spira emerged from his lab with a solid-state dimmer that could replace the light switch in a standard residential wall box. Spira's first invention – a simple rotary dimmer that can still be found on many dining room walls today – marked the birth of the lighting control industry. Lutron holds over 2,700 worldwide patents. In addition to the solid-state dimmer, Lutron innovations also include the first electronic dimming ballast for fluorescent lights and the first self-contained preset lighting control system.
Lutron and Lightopia offer a wide range of light control products, from individual dimmers to total light management systems that control entire building complexes. Some of Lutron's prize winning US accomplishments includes light control systems in the 52-story New York Times Building in New York, NY; the Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.
As world-renowned as they are, Lutron light controls continue to perform the most valuable of personal services – helping to keep people safe and comfortable in their own homes. On the residential side, light controls are installed everywhere from single-room apartments to palatial homes, including the White House and Windsor Castle.
No matter where they're installed or how big the system, every Lutron product saves energy by reducing electrical consumption. Taken as a whole, Lutron light controls have reduced electrical use by 9.2 billion kWh, which reduces our customers’ electric bills by $1 billion annually. Through the use of dimmers, Lutron protects the environment by decreasing the demand for light bulbs. Since dimmers extend lamp life, customers have to buy fewer bulbs, and that reduces the energy and environmental impacts associated with the manufacturing of fluorescent, incandescent, halogen, and other types of lamps.
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