The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-10-06
THE NEW NAVAL ADVISORY BOARD OF INVENTORS

"hiSh mas Deen selected by eleven
american scientific societies and
Thomas A. Edison, is perhaps one of
the most important organizations
ever named in the United States. Its
nrst meeting has been called by the
secretary of the navy for today, in
Washington.
These were Endorsed by the Ameri-
can Chemical Society:
DIR. w. R. Whitney, Schenectady.
whose most notable achievement is
the research laboratory of the Gen.
eral Electric Company, in Schenec-
tady. His successes there included
The process which insured the com.
mercial practicability of the photo.
graphic film; the "metallized" fila
ment, Or gen." lamp; the mechan.
lcally working Tungsten; the gas
hiled or halfwatt lamp, the magnetic
electrode arc-lamp, and the x-ray tube.
" - Doohidhu, OHkeTS, BEL
gian by birth, who invented Velox and
other Photographic papers, the Town.
send electrolytic cell, and photograph.
&c hlms and dry plates. He has been
awarded medals by four American so.
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, being
at one time laureate of the four Bel.
gian universities.
These were endorsed by the Ameri.
can 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 electrically trained
gun in the American navy; built the
hrst electric-trolley railways in the
united States, Italy, and Germany; in.
PRODUCED the electric elevator: invent.
ed the multiple-unit system of electric
'rain-control now used on all elevated
and subway roads here and abroad:
invented system of control for auto.
matte braking of trains, and is devel-
oping high-angle fire shrapnel. Mr..
sprague won gold medals at the Paris
and st. Louis expositions.
b. G. Lamme, Springfield, Ohio,
whose one hundred and forty inven.
tons include practically all types of
polyphase acknowledgement apparat-
us and railway generators and mo-
tors. Mr.. Lamme, who is chief engi.
neer of the Westinghouse Electric
Company, has been an acknowledged
leader in the last twenty-five years in
the Notwithstanding work of
America and Europe.
The recommendation of the Amer.
lean Mathematical Society were as
follows:
DR.. Robert Simpson Woodward.
Washington, D. c., civil engineer. as
tronomer, and geographer, who has
held high positions in the United
States Lake Survey, Geological Sur
vey and Coast and Geodetic Survey,
and has been president of the Car
negie institution of Washington, the
National Academy of Sciences, the
American Mathematic Society, and the
New York Academy of Sciences.
DIR. Arthur Gordon Webster, Wor-
Mass, a graduate of Harvard
University and a fellow at the uni
versities Of Berlin, Paris and Stock.
holm, who is the leading authority in
America on the subject of sound and
has invented many instruments in
that connection. In 1912 DR.. Webster
was United States delegate to the
Radotelegraphic Conference of Lon
don, which made the treaty regulating
telegraphy at sea. He was
and president of the American
Physical Society.
The American Society of Civil En-
gineers named these members:
Andrew Murray Hunt, San Francis
co, graduate of the United States
Naval Academy, whose work as con-
sulting engineer has covered widely
varied engineering activities, includ.
ing hydroelectric developments, irri-
cation, steam power plants, oil refin-
cries, cement manufacturing plants
and heavyacid plants.
Alfred Craven, New York City, a !
graduate of the United States Naval
Academy, who has distinguished him
self in irrigation work in California,
in the construction of the Sutro Tun.