Jay Monroe, an engineer whose wife’s discontent over the strong light he needed for bedtime reading provoked him to invent a high-intensity, low-voltage mini-lamp whose use spread to desks, jewelers’ ...

SANDS POINT, N.Y., July 5 (UPI) -- Jay Monroe, who invented the Tensor lamp used by jewelers, students, bedtime readers and stamp collectors, died in his Sands Point, N.Y., home. He was 80. His wife, ...

Jay Monroe, an engineer whose then-wife’s discontent over the strong light he needed for bedtime reading provoked him to invent a high-intensity, low-voltage mini-lamp, has died in Sands Point, N.Y.