West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1915-09-16
MEMBERS NAVAL ADVISORY
BOARD ARE NOTED EXPERTS
Secretary of Navy Daniels An
nounecs That His Only Personal
Selection is Thomas A. Edison
Eleven Great Engineering and
Other Societies Select Remainder

bership of the naval advisory board,
the organization OF experts nominated
by eleven great engineering and
scientific societies TO contribute their
inventive genius To the American
navy. was announced today by Score
tary Daniels. The first meeting viii,
be held at the navy department. on
Wednesday. October 6. with the chair
man. Thomas A. Edison. presiding.
The members OF the board and tho
societies which nominated them fol-
low:
American Aoronautical Society.
Hudson Maxim. Brooklyn, ordnance
and explosive expert, and maker OF
the first smokeless power adopted by
the United States government; Mat
thew Bacon Sellers, Baltimore, au-
thority on aoronautics and the first to
determine the dynamic air pressure on
archod surfaces by means OF tho
| wind funnel"
American Society of Automobile En-
giners, Howard Il. Coffin, Detroit,
Mich, and Andrew j. Riker, Bridge
port, Conn. inventors. automobile
builders and now vice presidents of
large automobile manufacturing com
panies.
The Inventors Guild, DR.. Peter
Cooper Hewitt. New York, inventor OF
appliances for telephones, hydro
planes. aeroplanes. balloons and cleo
tric lights; and Thomas Robbins.
stamford. Conn., inventor OF many me-
| ohanical devices, including the belt
| conyeyor for coal and ore, served I'm
the New York naval reserve and OBJ
served military conditions at the front
In France during the present war.
American Chemical Society, DIR. w.
r. Whitney. Schenectady, N. Y, crea-
tor and director of the research labor
atory of the General Electric com
pany; l.. II. Baekelan, Yonkers, N.
Y. native OF Belgium. famed particu-
larly for the invention of Photographic
paper.
American Institute OF American En-
gineers, Frank Julian Sprague, New
York. an early assistant of Edison who
directed the building of the first sue
cessful electric trolley railways I'm the
United States. Italy and Germany and
equipped the first electrically trained
gun for the navy; Benjamin G.. Lam
me, Pittsburgh, inventor and head OF
a committee which passes upon all the
Westinghouse Inventions.
American Mathematical Society. Ro-
bert Simpson Woodward, president OF
the Carnegie Institute at Washington.
ana an authority on astronomy, geo
graphy and mathematical physics; DR..
Arthur Gordon Webster, Worcester,
Mass, professor of physics at Clark
university, inventor and the leading
authority I'm America on sound.
American Society OF Civil Engi-
neers, Andrew Murray Hunt, New
York, graduate OF the United States
naval academy, and experienced I'm
development of hydro-electric steam
and gas plants; Alfred Craven, New
York son of an American rear ad-
miral and now chief engineer OF the
New York Public Service Commits
sion
The American Institute OF Mining
Engineers. William Lawrence Saund-
ers, New York, inventor and engineer
former newspaper and magazine edi-
tor and former mayor OF Plainfield, N.
j.; and Benjamin Bowditch Thayer.
New York, metallurgist and oxplo-
siye expert and now president OF Ana
conda Mining company
The American Electro Chemical So
ciety, DR.. Joseph william Richards.
South Bethlehem. Pa, professor of
metallurgy at Lehigh University: and
Lawrence Addicks. Chrome, N. J.. met
allurgical engineer and president of
the American Electro Chemical So
| ciety.
The American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, william Leroy Emmett.
Schenectady, N. y, engineer and in
ventor and first serious promoter OF
electric ship propulsion. having CON
Quoted the recent epoch making series
or experiments ON the naval collier
Jupiter; and Spencer Miller, South
Orange. n. j.. inventor OF apparatus
that has simplifed coaling OF ships.
and of the breeches buoy device now
used by the coast guard service I'm
/ shipwrcck rescue work.
The American Society OF Aeronautic
| Engineers, Henry Alexander Wise
wood. engineer and manufacturer. stu
dent Of naval aeronautics and regard
cd by many as the worlds foremost
authority ON the engineering features
of the art of printing, and Elmer A.
Spcrry electrical inventor and manu-
| facturcr
Secretary Daniels has declared his
intention Of seeing that great weight
is given all conclusions and recon-
mendatiOns Of this board not only in
! the framing Of the administration re-
concentrations to Congress, but I'm the
regular operation and development Of
/ the navy.