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An which he has served as chief en-
,.reer If the Public-Scrvice Commits
...n since 1910.
The American Ae~ronautical Society
,,mod two members:
Matthew Bacon Sellers, of Baltl-
more. educated in France, Germany
and America, who has been success
fully engaged in a~eronautics FOR
fifteen years. He was one of the first |
Il. determine the dynamic air pres
sure on arched surfaces by means of
thr wind tunnel" and his stopped
aeroplane" is the lightest ever built
and holds the record for least horse
power.
Hudson Maxim, of Brooklyn, who
has gained n worldwide reputation
for his work in high explosives and
their application in modern ordnance.
tn 1875 he rmulat the hypothesis
of The compound nature of atoms.
which has recently been accepted as
"a proved theory. Mr.. Maxim de-
Vcloped and manufactured the first
smukeless powder to be adopted by
The American government, and has
invented a de~tonating-fuse and a high
explosive adopted by this government,
"a self-combustive compound to re-
place compressed air in driving tor
uedoes. and processes of making cal
cium. carbide and microscopic dia-
monds. He has served as director
and president of the Aeronautical
Society Of America and is the au-
thor Of "Defenseless America" a
scathing d~enunciation of pacifism.
The Inventors Guild offered these
members:
Or. Peter Cooper Hewitt, New York
City. who is best known as the in>
ventor of the Cooper Hewitt electric
lamp, used for Illuminating factories
and for Photographic work. He is
also the inventor of the telephone
relay and electric-wave amplifiers,
wireless telephone and telegraph ap-
paratus, h~ydroplane, ~aeroplane, and
dirigible balloon apparatus, and light
transformers changing the color of
light-rays.
Thomas Robins. Stamford, Conn,
who is the inventor of numerous me-
chanical devices, including the belt
%conveyor for carrying ore and coal
for which he was awarded a golG
medal at the Paris Exposition. He is
enrolled in the American Legion, and
last winter visited the front in France
to study military conditions.
The American Society of AutomO-
bile Engineers named two:
Toward r. Coffin, Detroit. who was
the originator of the movement to
standardize competent materials ant
parts of automobiles and whose in
ventions relating to the design an(
production of mechanical traction de
vices nav revolutionized the industry
Mr.. Coffin produced one of the frs
steam-propelled automobiles.
Andrew l.. Riker, Detroit, who wa
the first president of the Society o
Automobile Engineers and who's
work resulted in placing the Ameri
can automobile on a meritoriou
worldwide basis. He produced tn,
first toothed armature, n among tn
first electric vehicles, electric trucks
marine lighting-plants, and racini
automobiles. In 1900 he was awarde'
a medal by the French government
for meritorious automobile design.
The American Institute of Minin
Engineers appointed these two mem
bers:
William Lawrence Saunders, Plain
field. ". j.. who designed apparatu
for ~subaqueous drilling now in ger
cral use, ~rock-drilling and quarrin
devices, track and bar ~channeler:
the radial-aXe system Of coal-mlnln;
and the system of pumping liquid
by compressed air now used in Rus
sian oil-fields. He is the author {
many scientific treatises.
benjamin Bowditch Thayer, Ne
York City, president of the Anacond
Copper Mining Company, whose Ion
experience in the mines of the we:
has made him thoroughly famlha
with their practical operation. He
an expert on copper and high e.
ploSives.
The American Elcctrochemical s.
ciety has two members:
Or. Joseph William Richards, Sout
bethlehem, Pa, who is a graduate
American and German unlverSltl'
and mining schools, and is a legal e,
pert in chemical and metallurgy case
Lawrence Addicks, Douglas. Ari;
who is a consulting me~tallurgical Ell
gineer of national reputation, havl1
been a life student of copper prope
ties in western mines and eastern r
hneries.
The American Society of Mocha
zeal Engineers named two membe
of the board:
William lie Roy Emmett, New Iol
City. a graduate of the United Stat
Naval Academy, who has achlev'