The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-09-13
Arrangements Already Being Made
for First Meeting Of Naval
Advisory Council on
October 6
DANIELS GIVES
OUT PERSONNEL
Different Societies Of Nation Name
Men Who Will Work Under
Edison in Building a
Greater U. 5. Navy

Washington. Sept. 15.--Plans are al
ready being perfected for the first
meeting Of the Naval Advisory Board.
members of which were announced
by Secretary Daniels Sunday night.
! The body is declared to be composed
Of the leading experts of every line
connected in any way with naval war
fare in America. Heading the list is
Thomas A Edison, declared to be the
most wonderful inventive genius the
world has. produced. The first meet.
ing will be held October at Wash
ington.
THE plan adopted for selecting the
section, was as follows: i request
ed eleven great inventing and scien-
tific societies to elect by popular cleo
tion members of advisory board" said
Secretary Daniels in announcing the
tion two members to represent them
on the board. The result has been
most gratifying have received the
nominations OF all these societies and
have accepted them and it only re-
mains 10 have a meeting organize and
determine the method or procedure in
order to utilize to the best advant-
age this mobilization OF the talent and
genius of our great country"
The names of the members and
the societies which nominated them
follow:
American Aeronautical society,"
Hudson Maxim, Brooklyn, ordinance
and explosive expert and maker of the
first smokeless powder adopted by
the United States government; Math-
thew Bacon, Sellers. Baltimore, au-
thority on aeronautics and the first
to determine the dynamic air pres
sure on arched surfaces BY means Of
the wind funnel,
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.
The Inventors GuiId-Dr. Peter
Cooper Hewitt, New York, inventor OF
appliances for telephones, hydro
planes, aeroplanes, balloons and cleo
trio lights. and Thomas Robbins.
Stamford, Conn, inventor OF many
mechanical devices. including the belt
conveyor for coal and ore, served in
the New York naval reserve and OBJ
served military conditions at the front
in France during the present war
American Chemical Society--Dr.
w R. Whitney. Schenectady. N. Y.
creator and dssector of the research
laboratory of the General Electric
company; L. H. Beeklan. Yonkers, ".
T., a native of Belgium, famed par
ticularly for the invention of photo
graphic paper.
American Institute of American En-
gineers-Frank Julian Sprague, New
York, an early assistant OF Edison.
who directed the building Of the first
successful electric trolley railways in
the United States. Italy and Germany
and equipped the first electrically
trained gun for the navy: BENJAMIN
G. Lamme, Pittsburg, inventor and
head of committee which passes up
on all Westinghouse inventions
American Mathematical society
Robert Simpson Woodward. president
of the Carnegie institute at Washing
ton. d. c.. and an authority on astron-
omy, geography and mathematical
physics; DR.. Arthur Gordon Webster.
Worcester. Mass. professor Of physics
at Clark university. inventor and the
leading authority in America On
sound.
American Society Of Civil Engineers
Andrew Murray Hunt. New York,
graduate of the United States Naval
academy and experienced In develop
ments OF hydro-electrio. steam and gas