The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-20
HENRY, E. HARRIS RECEIVES HONOR
 IN U. s. CAPITAL
Selected to O. Operate With Bureau of Standards at
 Washington.

Henry B. Harris of Bridgeport, head of the firm bearing his name, and member of the local committee Of the naval adviory board has again been highly honored by appointment with two other members of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers to CO., operate with the Bureau of Standards at Washington in the standardization of gauges for the manufacture Of mu- nitions and war equipment including motors, aeroplanes, etc.
 Announcement of the appointments, which reached Bridgeport this morn ing, includes with MT. Harris, John H. Barr, the consulting engineer Of the Remington Typewriter Co.,, whose standardization methods have surpris- ed the world and William A. Vial, secretary of the Browne & Sharpe, the representative gauge-making con- cerns of the world, especially noted for their ammunition gauges.
 MT. Harris was selected from among the 5000 mechanical engineers of the United States, it is said here today. be- cause of his close association with the gauge making business and his rec ord with the Western Electrical Co., manufacturers of all the telephone equipment of the Bell and other large telephone concerns. When with that company he effected the gauging sys- tenn which permits every machine manufactured by the big company to be gauged with 5000 instruments, and the invention of the interchange ab1l- l ity system for which that company is noted throughout the world.
 A list fo the positions he already holds includes membership on the state defense council, chairman of the Industrial department of the Fairfield l County association, chairman of the committee on the Bridgeport branch of the American Society of Mec lan- ical Engineers and other offices in civic and industrial organizations here and throughout the United States. 4 The importance of his latest ap- pointment is summed up by person i closely identified with government
 matters in Bridgeport who said in sub- stance:
 s.The Bureau of Standards at Wash ington has charge of all weights measures, standards of time, etc. Il hsa been found by government off. cials that during the European wal the Russian armies were driven back because or ammunition ldulI1ly COl structed and that the English armies were supplied with ammunition tha'
 did not fit or choked the big bore'
 of the guns with gyeat damage to. thu
 armies themselves and none to th' enemy.
 In Bridgeport alone thousands O
 dollars were lost to munition plant
 because of the differences in stand ards of gauge. It was found by ex
 animation of munitions on the field o
 battle and in various countries tha
 the foreign gauges were not stand
 ard"
 America will profit by the experi
 ence of her allies. In the manufac
 ture of millions of rounds of ammuni
 ton, aeroplane motors. tractors. au
 tomobiles, etc. all gauges are to D
 standard and to be as simple as in
 genuity of these engineers selected fo i the task of making sets can mak
 them."
 } MT. Harris was recently on tn
 committee of the American society c
 Mechanical Engineers which stand
 erdized the screw threads of Amertcs