Lucien Blake

Lucien Ira Blake (September 12, 1853 – May 11, 1916) was an American professor of physics and engineering at the University of Kansas.

After graduating from Amherst College in 1877, he went to the University of Berlin where he received a PhD with studies under Heinrich Hertz.

His underwater communications patent was bought in 1905 by the Submarine Signaling Company in Boston and they offered Blake a chief engineer position in 1906.

In 1911 he visited Europe with his newly-wed wife Mary Nieten Beroset for nearly four years giving lectures on the way.

[4][5][6] In 1889 he published along with William Studdards Franklin an article examining color blindness among native American people.They tested 285 men and 133 women at the “Indian Industrial Training School” using the Holmgren’s worsted test— and found a 0.7 percent rate of defective vision.