The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-13
Advisory Board Made
Public by Daniels.
EDISON HEADS NOTABLE LIST
GeniuSes Named by
Eleven Societies.
Maxim, Whitney, Emmett in
Galaxy of Experts.

bership of the naval advisory board,
the organization of experts nominated
tific societies to contribute their in
ventive geniuses to the American
navy, has just been announced by
Secretary Daniels. The first meeting
Wednesday, October 6, with the chair
man, Thomas A. Edison, presiding.
Desiring to make available the
latent inventive genius of our country
iels, in making his announcement, "a
short while ago 1 requested Thomas
A. Edison to become chairman of an
advisory board of prominent men who
would make up the board. Mr.. Edi-
son, with the patriotism characteristic
of American inventors, accepted the
call to duty.
Genius of Great Societies.
1.-The plan adopted for selecting the
members of the advisory board was
as follows: 1 requested eleven great
engineering and scientific societies to
select by popular election two mem
bers and to represent them on the
board. The result has been most
gratifying. 1 have received the nom1-
nations of all. these societies and have
accepted them and it only remains
to have meeting, organize and deter
mine the method of procedure in or
der to utilize to the best advantage
this mobilization of the talent and
genius of our great country.
1.-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 the first to determine
the dynamic air pressure on arched
surfaces by means of the wind tun-
nell
Motor Experts in List
American Society of Automobile
Engineers-Hcward E. Coffin, Detroit,
Mich, and Andrew J. Ril<er. Bridge
port, Conn.,, inventors, automobile
builders and now vice presidents of
large automobile manufacturing COM
panies.
''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
Stamford, Conn, inventor of many
mechanical devices including the bell
conveyor for coal and ore; served in
the New York naval reserve and Cb-
served military conditions at the front
in France during the present war.
American Chemical Society-Dr.
w. r. Whitney, Schenectady, n. Y,
creator and director of the research
laboratory of the General Electric
company; and L. H. Baekelan, Yon-
kers, n. Y, native of Belgium, famed
particularly for the invention of pho
tographic paper.
Edison's Early Aide Is HonOred.
American Institute of American
Engineers-Frank Julian Sprague,
New York, an early assistant of Edi-
son, who directed the building of the
first successful electric trolley railways
in the United States, Italy and Ger
he oil
trically trained gun for the navy and
Benjamin G. Lamme, Pittsburg in
ventor and head of a committee which
passes upon all Westinghouse inven-
lions.
American Mathematical Society
Robert Simpson Woodward, president
of the Carnegie Institute at Washing
ton, D. c., and an authority on as
tronomy, geography and mathematical
physics; and DIR. Arthur Gordon Web
ster, Worcester, Mass, professor of
physics at Clark university, inventor
and the leading authority in America
on sound
American Society of Civil Engi-s
Murray Hunt, New
York, graduate of the United States ma
val academy and experienced in de-
yelopment of hydro-electric steam and
gas plants; and Alfred Craven, New
York, son of an American rear adj
n1iral and now chief engineer of the
1.-The American Institute of Mining
Engineers-William Lawrence Saun-.
ders, New York, inventor and engi-
neer, f. rmer newspaper ana magazine
editor and former mayor of Plainfield,
N. J., and Benjamin Bowditch Thay-
er, New York, metallurgist and ex-
plosive expert ed now president of
anaconda Mining company.
Lehigh Man Is Named.
THE American Electric-Chemical
society-Dr. Joseph William Richards.
South Bethlehem, Pa. professor of
metallurgy at Lehigh university: and
Lawrence Addicks, Chrome, N. j.,
metallurgical engineer and president
of the American Electro-Chemical so
ciety.
cal Engineers-William Leroy En-
NETT, Schenectady, n. Y, engineer and
inventor and first serious promoter of
electric ship propulsion, having con-
Quoted the recent epoch making series
of experiments on the naval collier
Jupiter; and Spencer Miller, South
Orange, n. J., inventor OF apparatus
that has simplified coai1ng OF shops
used by the coast guard service in
shipwreck rescue work.
1.-The American Society of Engi-
neers-Harry Alexander WiSewood,
engineer and manufacturer, student of
naval aeronautics and regarded by
many as the worlds foremost author
ity on the engineering FEATURES OF the
art of printing: and Elmer A Sherry.
electrical inventor and manufacturer.
Secretary Daniels has declared his
intention of seeing that great weight
is given all conclusions and recommen--
dations of this board, not only in the
framing of-the administrations recon-
mendations to congress, but in the
regular operation and development Of
the navy.
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