Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03
New Naval Advisory Board
Consists of Men Foremost
in Ranks Of SCIENCE
ARE LARGELY INVENTORS
OF UP-TO-DATE ARTICLES
Wide Range Of Chemical, Mechani-
cal, Electrical and Engineering
Ability Represented.

The new naval advisory board, which
has been selected BY eleven American
scientific societies and Thomas A. Edi-
son, is perhaps one OF the most I'M
portant organizations ever named In
the United States. Its first meeting has
been called by the Secretary OF the
Navy for October 6. in this city.
These were Endorsed by the American
Chemical Society:
DR.. w. r. whitney. Schenectady,
whose most notable achievement IL the
research laboratory Of the General
Electric Company. in Schenectady. HIS
successes there included the process
which insured tho commercial practi-
cability OF the Photographic hlm: the
-"metallized" hlament. or gem" lamp:
the mechanically working tungsten;
the gas-nlled or half-watt lamp; the
magnetibe electrode arc lamp. and the
x-ray tube.
DR., l. H Baekland, Yonkers. Bel
Rian by birth, who invented Velox ana
other Photographic papers. the Town
send electrolytic cell and Photographic
films and dry plates. He mas oeen
cieties: was United States delegate to
The International Congress Of Chemis-
try in London, 1909; has been presi-
dent of five American scientific socie-
ties and vice president Of two others
and holds degrees from Belgian. Ger
man and American universities, oelng
at one time laureate Of the four BEL
CLAN universities.
Electrical Engineers.
These were indorsed by the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers:
- Frank Julian sprague. Milford. Conn.
a graduate Of the United States Naval
Academy and later a pupil of Thomas
A. Edison. who equipped the first cleo
trically trained gun in the American
navy: built the first electric trolley
railways in the United States, Italy and
Germany; introduced the electric ele-
yator; invented the multiple-unit sys-
tenn of electric train control now used
on all elevated and subway roads here
and abroad; invented a system Of con-
troll for automatic braking Of trains.
and is developing high-angle nre
ahrapnel. Mr.. Sprague won gold mod
ais at the Paris and st. Louis expo
sitions.
40 inventions include practically all
types of polyphase alternating current
apparatus and railway enerators and
motors Mr.. Lamme, who 10 chief engi-
neer of the Westinghouse Electric
Company, has been an acknowledged
leader in the last twenty-five years in
the electrical engineering work OF
America and Europe.
Mathematical Society.
The Recommendations Of the Ameri-
can Mathematical Society were as fol-
lows:
DR.. Robert Simpson woodward,
Washington. D. c.. civil engineer. as
tronomer and geographsr. who has held
high positions in the United States
lake survey, geological survey and
coast and geodetic survey, and has
been president Of the Carnegie .1nstitu.
ton of Washington. the National
Academy Of Sciences. the American
Mathematical Society and tho New
York Academy of Sciences.
DR.. Arthur Gordon Webster. Worces-
ter, Mass, a graduate of Harvard Uni
versity and a fellow at the UNIVERSE
ties Of Berlin, Paris and Stockholm,
who IL the leading authority in Amer
lea on the subject Of sound and has