The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-09-15
NAVAL BOARD APPOINTED,
SECRETARY DANIELS GIVES
NAMES OF ADVISORY COM.
MITTEE.
Thomas n. Edison Will Head New
Organization for Improvement of
Navy-PrOmincnt Inventors Will
Work Together for Protection of
United States.

United States.
Washington, Sept. 12.-The men,
bers of the naval advisory board,
the organization of experts nomi-
mated by II great engineering and
scientific societies to contribute their
inventive genius to the American
navy, was announced today. by Sec
retary Daniels. The first meeting
will be held at the navy department
October with the chairman,
Thomas A. Edison. presiding.
The members Of the board and the
societies which nominated them fol-
low:
American Aeronautical society
Hudson Maxim, Brooklyn, ordnance
and explosive expert and maker OF
the first smokeless powder adopted
by the United States government.
Matthew Bacon Sellers, Baltimore,
authority on aerOnautics and first to
determine the dynamic air pressure
on arched surfaces by means of the
wind funnel"
American Society of Automobile
Engineers-Howard E. Coffin, De-
troit, and Andrew j. Riker, Bridge
port, Conn.,, inventors and automobile
builders.
The Inventors Guild-Dr. Peter
Cooper Hewitt, New York, inventor
of appliances for telephones, hydro
planes. aeroplanes. balloons and cleo
trio lights; and Thomas Robbins,
Stanford, Conn, inventor Of. me-
chanical devices, including the belt
conveyer for coal and ore.
American Chemical Society-Dr.
W. Whitney, Schenectady. N. Y.
creator and director of the research
laboratory of the General Electric
company; L. H. Baekeland, Yonkers,
N. Y, and native of Belgium, inventor.
American Institute of American
Engineers--Frank Julian Sprague,
tNew York, an early assistant of Edi-
son who directed the building of the
first successful electric trolley rail-
way and equipped the first electrical
ly trained gun for the navy; Benia-
min G. Lamme, Pittsburgh inventor
and head of committee whiaj,
passes on Westinghouse inventions.
American Mathematical Society
| Robert Simpson Woodward. presi-
| dent Of the Carnegie institute at
Washington, and an authority on
astronomy, geography and mathe-
matical physics; DR.. Arthur Gordon
! Webster, Worcester, Mass, leading
authority in America on sound.
| American Society of Civil Engi-
neers--Andrew Murray Hunt, New
York. experienced in development of
hydro-electric steam and gas plants;
Alfred Craven, New York chief en-
gineer Of the New Public service
commission.
The American Institute of Mining
Egineers-William Lawrence Saun-
ders, New York, inventor and en-
gineer; Benjamin Bowdick Thayer,
New York metallurgist and explosive
expert and president Of Anaconda
Mining company.
The American Electro-Chemical
society-Dr. Joseph William Rich
ards, South Bethlehem, Pa, profess
sor of metallurgy at Lehigh univer-
sity; Lawrence Addicks, Chrome, n.
j., metallurgical engineer.
The American Society Of Mechani-
cal Engineers-Willian, Leroy EN-
met. Schenectady, N. Y, first serious
promoter of elctric ship propulsion; !;
Spencer Miller, South Orange, n. j.,
inventor of apparatus that has SIM
plified coaling of ships and of the
breeches buoy device used by the
coast guard service.
The American Society of Aeronau-
tic Engineers-Henry Alexander Wise
Wood. engineer and manufactures.
student OF naval aerOnoutics and re-
garded by many as the worlds fore
most authority on the engineering
features of the art of printing; Elmer
"A. Sperry, electrical inventor and
manufactures.
Secretary Daniels has declared his
intention of seing that great weight
is given all recommendations of this
board not only in the forming of the
administrations recommendations to
congress but in the regular operation
and development of the navy.