The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-09-14
full MEMBERSHIP
ADVISORY BOARD
Secretary Daniels Makes Public
the Names of Men Who
Will Aid Navy.
EDISON AT THE HEAD.
by Eleven Great Engineering
and Scientific Societies.

Washington, Sept. 12.-The full
membership of the naval advisory
board, nominated by IL great engi-
neering and scientific societies to con-
tribute their inventive genius under
the lead of Thomas A. Edison to the
American navy, was announced to-
day by Secretary Daniels. The mem
bers and the societies which nomi~
mated them follow:
American Chief Aeronautical So
ciety-Hudson Maxim, Brooklyn,
brdance and explosive expert and
maker of the first smokeless powder
adopted by the United States govern
ment; Matthew Bacon Sellers, Balti-
more, authority on aeronautics and
the first to determine the dynamic air
pressure on arched services by means
of the wind funnel"
American Society of Automobile
ngineers-Howard r. Coffin, De-
troit and Andrew ]. Riker, Bridge
port, Conn, inventors and automo-
bile builders
The Inventors Guild-Dr Peter
Cooper Hewitt, New York, inventor
of appliances for telephones, hydro
planes, aeroplanes, balloons and cleo
trio light; and Thomas Robbins.
Stamford, Conn, inventor of many
mechanical devices, including the
belt oonVeyor for coal and ore; serv-
ed the New York naval reserve and
observed military condItions at the
front in France during the present
war.
American Chemical Society DR.
W. K. Whitney, Schenectady. creator
and doctor of the research laboratory
OF the General Electric Company:
and l.. III. Bacetkeland, Yonkers. u
native of Belgium. famed particular
ly for invention OF Photographic
paper.
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 rail-
way in the United States. Italy and
Germany and equipped the first cleo
trically trained gun for the navy:
and Benjamin G. Lamme. Pittsburs.
inventor and head of a committee
which passes upon all Westinghouse
inventions.
American Mathematical Society
Robert Simpson Woodward. presi-
dent OF the Carnegie Institute at
Washington, ID. c., and an authority
on astronomy, geography and mathe-
matical physics; and DR.. Arthur
Gordon Webster, Worcester, Mass.
professor of physics at Clark Univer-
sity. inventor and the leading au-
thority in America on sound.
American Society of Civil Eng
eers-Andrew Murray Hunt. New
York, graduate of the United States
Naval Academy and experienced in
development of hydro-electric. steam. H..
and gas plants; and Alfred Craven.
New York, chief engineer of the New
York public service commission.
American Institute of Mining En-
gineers-William Lawrence Saund-
ers, New York, inventor and engi-
neer, former newspaper and maya
zine editor and former mayor of
Plainfield. Y. j.; and BENJAMIN
Bowdich Thayer, New York, metal
lurgist and explosive expert, presi-
dent of Anaconda Mining Company.
American Electro Chemical So
ciety-Dr. Joseph William Richards.
South Bethlehem. Pa, professor of
metollurgy at Lehigh University; and
Lawrence Addicks, Chrome, N. J.,
metallurgical engineer, president of
the American Electro-Chemical So
ciety.
American Society of Mechanical
Eneineers-William Leroy Emmett
Schenectady, engineer and inventor
and first serious promoter of electric
ship propulsion. having conducted the
recent epochmaking series of exuer-
iments on the naval collier Jupiter:
and Spencer Miller, South Orange,
N. j., inventor Of apparatus that has
simpiified coa,ing of ships and Of the