Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-09-17
AMERICAN NAVY
GETS GREAT AID
ADVISORY BOARD OF SCIENTIFIC
MEN TO CONTRIBUTE
THEIR GENIUS.
FIRST MEETING OCTOBER 6
Thomas Edison Will 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
lzation 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 G.,
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 l requested Thomas A. Edi-
son to become chairman of an adj
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 II 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
1t 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 CON-
panies.
Noted Inventors Named.
The Inventors guild-Dr. Peter
Cooper Hewitt, New York, inventor of
appliances for telephones, hydro
planes, aeroplanes, balloons and elec-
trio lights, and Thomas Robbins, Stan.
ford, Conn.,, inventor of many mechan-
1cal devices, including the belt con-
veyor for coal and ore.
American Chemical society-Dr. w.
X. Whitney, Schenectady, N. Y, crea-
tor and director of the research lab
oratory of the General Electric COM
pany; L. H. Baekeland, Yonkers, N.
T., native of Belgium, famed par
ticularly for the invention of a photo
graphic paper
American Institute of Electrical En-
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
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
1t Clark university.
Andrew Hunt, Alfred Craven.
American Society of Civil Engineers
Andrew Murray Hunt, New York,
experienced in development Of hydro
electric, steam and gas plants; Alfred
craven, New York, chief engineer of
he New York public service commits.
sion.
The American Institute of Mining
1ngineers-William Lawrence Saund-
srs, New York, inventor and engineer,
md BENJAMIN Bowdich Thayer, New
York, metallurgist and explosive ex-
vert.
The American Electro Chemical So
'iety-Dr. Joseph William Richards,
South Bethlehem, Pa, professor of
netallurgy at Lehigh university, and
lawrence Addicks, Chrome, N J., me-
allurgical engineer. /
The American Society of Mechanical
1ngineers-William Leroy Emmett, &
schenectady, N. Y, engineer and in I
'entor and first serious promoter of I
electric ship propulsion, and Spencer
filler, South Orange, N. j., inventor
f apparatus that has simplified coal
ng Of ships and OF the breeches buoy l
evice now used by the coast guard t
ervice. +
The American Society of Aeronautic I
Engineers - Henry Alexander Wise n
Wood, regarded by many as the n
5orld's foremost authority on the en- O
ineering features of the art of print Y
ng, and Elmer A. Sperry, electrical in a
entor and manufacturer. a
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