The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-09-21
NATIONS GENIUS
ON naval BOARD
Something About Men Who
Act as Official Advisers.
FIRST MEETING ON OCT. s.
Various Scientific Societies of the
Country Suggested Two Names Each,
and Body Now Consists of Twenty
three Members, With Thomas A. Edi-
son at the Head-Who the Men Are.

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three Members, With Thomas A. Edi-
son at the Head-Who the Men Are.
The meeting Of the new naval adj
visory board of inventions recently
named by Secretary Daniels after he
had received suggestions from the
leading scientific societies will be n
of the most interesting ever held in
this country. The gathering will take
place In Washington on Oct. g.. The
board Is composed of t~wenty-three
members, with Thomas A. Edison
chairman.
Something about the men who form
the committee is interesting at this
time. Following is a list or the mem
bers:
w. Il. Whitney, Schenectady, N. Y;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
90; director of research laboratory of
the General Electric company. where
he has been the moving spirit iii the
perfection of metallic electric lamp fla
ments and the development of wrought
tungsten.
L. H. Baekeland. Yonkers. n. Y;
University OF Client, 80; in private
practice; founder of the Nepera Chem
zeal company. 1892, and inventor of
Photographic paper.
Frank Julian Sprague, New York
city; Naval academy. rs; consulting
engineer for Sprague, Otis and Gen
eral Electric companies; founder of
Sprague Electric Railway Motor COM
pany and concerned in establishing
first electric trolley systems in the
United States.
B. G. Lamme, Pittsburgh; Ohio State,
SO: chief engineer of Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing company
and a prolific inventor.
Robert Simpson Woodward. Wash
ington; Michigan, 70; president of Car
negie institution and an authority on
astronomy, geography and mathemat-
ical physics.
Arthur Gordon Webster, Worcester,
Mass; Harvard, 'S5; professor of phys
les Clark university and an authority
on sound, its production and measure
ment.
Andrew Murray Hunt. New York
city; Naval academy, 10; consulting
engineer; experienced in the develop
nIent of hydroelectric, steam and gas
plants.
Alfred Craven, New York city; Naval
academy. 81: chief engineer of public
service commission and formerly divi-
sion engineer in charge of construction
work on Croton aqueduct and reser-
voirs.
Matthew Bacon Sellers, Baltimore:
Lawrence Scientific school; director of
technical board of the A~eronautical So
ciety OF America and first to determine
dynamic wind pressure on arched sur
faces by means of wind funnel"
Hudson Maxim. Brooklyn; ordnance
and explosive expert and maker of first
smokeless powder adopted by the Unit
ed States government.
Peter Cooper Hewitt, New York city
inventor of electric lamp. appliances to
enable direct current apparatus to be
used with alternating current circuits.
and devices for telephones and aircraft.
Thomas Robbins, Stamford. Conn.
Princeton; president of Robbins Con-
veying Belt company and inventor of
many devices for conveying coal and
ore.
Andrew l.. Riker, Detroit; vice pres
ident OF Locomobile company; electric.
al and mechanical engineer and in.
ventor of many automobile devices.
Howard Il. Coffin, Detroit; Michigan
90; vice president of Hudson Motor
car company and active in the deyel
opment of internal combustion engines.
William Laurence Saunders. New
York city; Pennsylvania. '76; chairman
board of directors Ingersoll- Rand com
pany and inventor of many devices for
subaqueous and rock drilling.
Benjamin Bowditch Thayer. New
York city; Harvard. 'S5: president Of
Anaconda Copper Mining company and
an authority on explosives.
Joseph William Richards, South Beth
lehem. Pa; Lehigh. SO; professor OF
electrochemistry. Lehigh university
and author of numerous works on cleo
trometallurgy.
Lawrence Addicks. Chrome, N. j.
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
SO; consulting engineer for Phelps
Dodge & Co. and an authority on the
metallurgy Of copper
William Leroy Emmett. Schenectady
N. y; Naval academy 81: engineer
with the General Electric company; de
signed and directed the development
OF Curtis turbine; first serious promoter
OF electric propulsion for ships.
Spencer Miller. South Orange. N. j.
Worcester Polytechnic. 70: inventor OF
lhip coaling apparatus and the breech
IS buoy. device used in rescues from
shipwrecks.
Henry Alexander Wise Wood. New
York city, engineer and manufactures
of printing machinery. student OF ma
val aeronautics.
Elmer Ambrose Snnrrv Chicago Cor