Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-13
Naval Advisory
Board Selected
FIRST MEETING Is TO BE HELD
OCT. 9Th.
EDISON TO BE CHAIRMAN
To oetsrmins Best Procedure in Order
to Utilize Talent and Genius of Our
Country.


to Utilize Talent and Genius of Our
Country.
bership OF the naval advisory board
the organization Of experts nominated
oy II great engineering and scientific
societies TO contribute their inventive
genius to the American navy was an
today by Secretary Daniels
The first meeting viii be held at the
navy department October 6th. with
the chairman Thomas A. Edison. pre-
siding.
To Davelop Inventive Genius.
Desiring to make available the lat
ent inventive genius Of our country to
in making his announcement "a. short
while ago requested Thomas A. Edi-
SON TO become chairman OF an adyfs-
ory board Of prominent men who
would make Up The board. Mr.. Edison
with the patriotism characteristics OF
American Inventors. accepted the cali
10 duty Tae plan Sdop-ed for select
ing the members OF the advisory board
was as follows:
ReEXlt Most Grstffyln1.
7 =eu2sted eleven great engineering
and sctc16fic societies to select by
popular elsctton two Members to rep
rese-lt them on the Soard- The result
has bern most gratifying. have re-
ceivcd the nominations OK AL these
s,sctsssss AID have accepted them and
II Og1Iy nsnatyzs to have q meeting TO
organize and determine the method of
procedure II ofdsr TO Utilize to the
best advR-GGS7 This mobilization OF
the talent snd genius Of our great
country.
The msrnbers OF the board ana the
societies. which nominated them fol-
low:
American Au1un.anticaI society
Hudson HARM, Brooklyn. ordnance
and axpisSive e2psrt and maker OF
tne nzst slnokelocs powder adopted By
the United States government.
Mathew Recon Sellers. Baltimore. au-
1hority on aeronautics and the first to
determine the dynamic air pressure
on arched surfaces by means OF -the
wind funnel"
RiI<er OF Bridgeport.
American Society OF Automobile En-
gineers-Howard z Comm. Detroit.
Mich, and Andrew ]. Riker, Bridge
builders and now vice presidents of
large automobile manufacturing COM
panies-
Robbins of Stamford.
The Inventors Gund-Dr. Peter
Cooper Hewitt, New York, inventor OF
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aeroplanes. balloons and electric
lights: and Thomas Robbins, STAN
ford, Conn. inventor of many mechan-
ical devices including the belt con-
served in the New York naval re-
serve and who observed military con-
dittons at the front IN France during
the present war.
American Chemical society-Dr. w.
/ R Whitney, Schenectady N Y Gre
4 nj fifrarrnr Of he 1v--f1 Lob.
/ oratory OF the General Electric COM
pany: L. II. Baekelan. Yonkers, y. Y
a native OF Belgium, famed particu-
larry for the invention of a photo
graphic paper.
American Institute OF American En-
gineers-Frank Julian Sprague. New
| York. an early assistant Of Edmison
| 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
O. Lamme, Pittsburgh, inventor and
head of a committee which passed
upon all Westinghouse inventions.
Geographical and Metal Physics.
American Mathematical society
Robert Simpson Woodward. president
OF the Carnegie Institute at Wash
ington. d. C.. and an authority on as
tronomy, geographical and metal
physics: DR.. Gordon Webster Wor-
cester. Mass. professor Of physics at
CLARK university. inventor and the
leading authority in America on
sound.
Steam and Gas Plants
American Society OF Civil Engi-
neers-Andrew Murray Hunt, New
York. graduate Of the United States
naval academy and experienced in de-
} gas plants; Alfred Craven. New York
son OF an American rear admiral and
! now chief engineer Of the New York
public service commission
The American Institute OF Mining
Engineers-William Lawrence Saun-
J ders. New York. inventor and engineer
= former newspaper and magazine ed
) ttor and former mayor OF Plainneld
! n. J., and Benjamin Bowditch Thay-
er. New York, metaIlurgist and ex-
plosive expert and now president oi
8 Anaconda Mining company.
] MetaIIurgieaI Engineer.
The American Electro-Chemical So
: ciety-Dr Joseph William Richards
South Bethlehem. Pa, professor o'
metallurgy at Lehigh university. and
Lawrence Addicks. Chrome. N J. met
Z allurgical engineer and president o
2 the American Electro-Chemical so
ciety.
: Electric Ship Propulsion.
The American Society OF Mechan
fcaI Engineers-Wilham Leroy En-
lmett, Schenectady, N. 7, engineer an
inventor and first ser1otB promoter o
u electric ship propulsion. having con
Quoted the recent epooh-malSing re
: ries Of experiments on the naval col
|, lier Jupiter. and Spencer MinE, Sout
= Orange, ~. 7. inventnr Of apparatu
70 that has simpiihed coaHng of ship
and of ths breechss buoy ds~tce NOS
used by the coast guard service {
u shipwrecl rescue work
Naval AeronautiSs-
d The American Society q Aeronau
le tic EnEfneers-Hen-y Alexander Wise
Is wood, enginssr and manufactures
e. student OK naval aoronauttcs and rs
Eardec by many as the worlds fore
most auehokzty On the enwineeTizl
features OF the art % printing, an
- Elmer A. Spery. electric inventor an
!. manufactures
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