Fred Bentham
Lighting technologist and innovator in the UK 1930s-1970s. Developed innovative approaches to lighting control
Bentham, Fred
Frederick Bentham
Frederick Bentham was a British technologist and innovator who worked for the lighting company Strand in the UK. He invented the Light Console in the 1930s, which used a cinema organ console to control lighting - a unique and radically different way of controlling light compared to the usual systems of the time.