Montgomery County sentinel., 1915-09-17
Daniels Names Advisory Board.

The membership of the Naval Advisory
Board, the organization of experts nomi-
mated by eleven great engineering and
scientific societies to contribute their in
ventive genius to the navy, was announced
Monday by Secretary Daniels The first
meeting will be held at the Navy Depart
ment. Washington, on Wednesday, Octo-
Der 9Th, with the chairman. Thomas A.
Edison, presiding.
The members of the Board and the soci-
ties which nominated them follow:
American Aeronautical Society Hudson
Maxim, Brooklyn, ordnance and explosive
expert and maker of the first smokeless
powder adopted by the United States Gov
ernment; Matthew Bacon Sellers, Balti-
more, authority on aeronautics and the first
to determine the dynamic air pressure on
arched services by means of the wind
funnel"
American Society of Automobile En-
Rineers-HOward E. Coffin, Detroit, and
Andrew J. Riker. Bridgeport, Conn, inven-
tor, automobile builder and vice-p president
Of large automobile manufacturing COM
panies.
The Inventors Guild-Dr. Peter Cooper
Hewitt. New York, inventor of appliances
for telephones, hydroplanes. aeroplanes
balloons and electric lights, and Thomas
Robbins, Stamford. Conn, inventor Of many
mechanical devices, including the belt con-
veyOr for coal and ore, served in the New
York naval reserve and observed military
conditions at the front in France during
the present war.
American Chemical SOciety-Dr W. r.
Whitney. Schenectady, N. Y. creator and
director Of the research laboratory of the
General Electric Company; L. H. Baekelan.
fonkers, N. T., a native of Belgium, famed
particularly 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 railway in the United States. Italy
and Germany. and equipped the first cleo
trically trained gun for the navy Benja-
min G. Lamme. Pittsburgh. inventor and
head of a committee which passes upon
all Westinghouse inventions.
American Mathematical Society Robert
Simpson Woodward. president of the Car
negie institute at Washington. D. c.. and
an authority on astronomy. geography and
mathematical physics DIR. Arthur Gordon
Webster, Worcester, Mass. professor of
physics of 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 State Naval Academy and
experienced in development of hydro
electric steam and gas plant Alfred Crav-
en-, New York, son Of an American rear
admiral and chief engineer of the New
York Public Service Commission.
The American Institute of Mining En-
gineers-William Lawrence Saunders, New
York. inventor and engineer, former news
paper and magazine editor and former May
or Of Plainfeld. N j. Benjamin Bowditch
Thayer. New York. metallurgist and explo-
sive expert and president of Anaconda
Mining Company.
The American Electro-Chemical Society,"
DIR. Joseph William Richards. South Beth
lehem, Pa, professor of mettallurgy al
Lehigh University; Lawrence Addicks
Chrome. N. j., metallurgical engineer and
president of the American Electro Chemi
cal Society
The American Society of Mechanical En-
gineers-William Leroy Emmett. Schenecta
dy. N. Y. engineer and inventor and frs
serious promoter Of electric ship prOpul
sion, having conducted the recent epoch
making series of experiments on the nava
collier Jupiter, and Spencer Miller. Soutl
Orange, N. j.. inventor of apparatus tina
has simplified cOaling of ships and Of tn,
breeches buoy device now used by the
Coast Guard Service in shipwreck rescue
work.
The American Society of AeronautiC
Engineers Henry Alexander Wise Wood
New York city. engineer and manufacturer
student Of naval aerOnautics and regarded
by many as the worlds foremost authority
on the engineering feature Of the art o
printing. and Elmer A. Spery, electrica
inventor and manufacturer.
Secretary Daniels has declared his in
tention of seeing that great weight il
given all conclusions and recommends
tions Of this board, not only in the framing
Of the Administration recommendation
to Congress. but in the regular operation
and development Of the navy,
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