Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-09-17
AMERICAN NAVY
GETS GREAT AID
ADVISORY BOARD OF SCIENTIFIC
MEN TO CONTRIBUTE
THEIR GENIUS.
FIRST MEETING OCTOBER 6
Thomas Edison VIII Be Chairman
All Branches Of Science that Could
Be of Use in Naval Construction
Represented on Committee.

Washington.-The membership of |
the naval advisory board, the organ
ization of experts nominated by Ia |
great engineering and scientific socie-
ties to contribute their inventive gen
fuses to the American navy, has been |
announced by Secretary Daniels The |
first meeting will be held at the navy
department Wednesday, October 6,
with the chairman, Thomas A. Edison, |
presiding.
Desiring to make available the lat
ent inventive genius of our country to
improve our navy" said Mr. Daniels
in making his announcement, "a short
while ago ! requested Thomas A. Edi-
son to become chairman of an ad-
visory 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 The plan adopted for Sc
lecting the members of the advisory
board was as follows:
Response Gratifying.
Il requested IL great engineering
and scientific societies to select by
popular election two members to rep
resent them on the board. The re-
suit has been most gratifying. l have
received the nominations of all these
societies and have accepted them and
it only remains to have a meeting, or
ganize and determine the method of
procedure in order to utilize to the
best advantage this mobilization of
talent and genius of our great coun-
try"
The members of the board and the
societies which nominated them fol
low: American Aeronautical society
Hudson Maxim, Brooklyn, ordnance
and explosive expert; Matthew Bacon
Sellers, Baltimore, authority on
aeronautics.
American Society of Automobile
Engineers-Howard E. Coffin, Detroit,
Mich, and Andrew j. Riker, Bridge
port, Conn, inventors, automobile
builders and now vice presidents of
large automobile manufacturing COM
panies.
Noted Inventors Named.
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, Stan
ford, Conn, inventor of many mechan-
ical devices, including the belt con-
veyor for coal and ore.
American Chemical society-Dr. w.
: r. Whitney, Schenectady, N. Y, crea-
, tor and director of the research lab
oratory of the General Electric COM
/ pany; L. H. Baekeland, Yonkers, ~
Y, a native of Belgium, famed par
ticularly for the invention Of a photo
graphic paper.
American Institute of Electrical En-
, gineers-Frank Julian Sprague, New
York, an early assistant of Edison,
who built the first electrically trained
gun for the navy; Benjamin G. Lamme
Pittsburg, inventor and head of a
committee which passes on all West
/, inghouse inventions.
American Mathematical society
Robert Simpson Woodward, president
of the Carnegie institute at Washing
ton, d. c., and an authority on as
tronomy; DR.. Arthur Gordon Webster,
Worcester, Mass, professor of physics
at Clark university.
Andrew Hunt, Alfred Craven.
American Society of Civil Engineers
Andrew Murray Hunt, New York
: experienced in development of hydro
y electric, steam and gas plants; Alfred
e Craven, New York, chief engineer OF
: the New York public service commits
b sion.
0 The American Institute of Mining
/ William Lawrence Saund
ers, New York, inventor and engineer
: and Benjamin Bowdich Thayer, New
York, metallurgist and explosive ex
a pert.
A The American Electro-Chemical SO
q ciety-Dr Joseph William Richards
+ South Bethlehem, Pa, professor O