Evening star., 1932-04-10

TAMOUS inventors, accompanied by
- industrial and public leaders and
attorneys from all sections OF the
Il country, will gather here tomor-
row to pay tribute TO the new
building that now houses the UhICeQ
States Patent Office and to the nrSt
patent commissioner and pioneer IeHo"
inventor, George washington.
The program calls for a celebration
Of the official opening Of the north wing
of the $17,500,000 new office BUILDING OF
the Commerce Department, occupied by
the Patent Office. 1t IS arranged ana
will be carried out by national COM
nittee representing scientific organlza-
tionS, patent law associations and
chambers of commerce in nearly all OF
the 4S States
H. II. Dykes of New York City is
chairman of the committee, and How
ard s. Smith of Dayton, Ohio. is sec
retary. Other members are William M.
Corse of this city, George I. Haight Of
Chicago, Henry Howson of Philadelphia,
z. w. Mccullough and H. E. Stauffer
Of this city and Henry Van Arsdale Of
New York City.
The morning session will take place
in the Commerce Departments main
auditorium. Secretary Of Commerce
Lamont, Patent Commissioner Thomas
z. Robertson and Thomas Ewing, presi-
dent of the American Patent Law ASso-
citation and former patent commissioner,
will speak
The afternoon session will include the
opening of the Patent Office for public
inspection, with Commissioner Robert
son and members of his staff acting as
hosts. A reception will be held for
officials and delegates to the celebration
VIII Decorate Memorials.
Afterward wreaths will be placed on
memorials In various parts of Wash
ington in honor of famous inventors
and national figures who have aided in
ventive progress. Lincoln, Washington,
Jefferson and Franklin, all of whom
have inventions credited to them, will
be so honored, and the memorials to
John Ericsson, near the Lincoln Me-
mortal; Joseph Henry, near the Ma
tional Museum, and Samuel B. Morse
will also be decorated.
The final and evening session will
consist of banquet at the Mayhower
Hotel Among the speakers will be
Charles F. Kettering, director Of re-
search for the General Motors Corpo-
ration, and inventor of ignition sys-
TENS and lighting devices; DR.. Frank
B. Hewett, president of the Bell Tele-
phone Laboratories, and Wallace r.
Lane of Chicago, internationally known
authority on patent law.
in American history The only SINH
lar event was the Inventors and Manu-
facturers' Congress Of 1891, which
celebrated the beginning of the sec
ond century Of American inventive
progress.
The removal of the Patent Office
from its old quarters at Ninth and
T streets was started on January /
last, and was completed only short
time ago, marking the final evacua-
ton of a building first occupied 80
years ago. Efforts to obtain adequate
housing have been going on for many
years and the success of these efforts
according to members Of the National
Committee, is an event of vital i'm
portance to inventors, manufacturers
and the general public.
The new home of the Patent Office
is designed for efficient operation. The
public search room and scientific L.
brary in the new building are con-
sidered the finest of their kind in
u
referred to as the largest 10-cent store
in the world selling one product. Each
working day $4,000 copies of patents
are sold at 10 cents each. Application
for patents run about 10000 a year,
and amended applications amount to
more than 100000 annually. This
agency is almost entirely self-sup-
porting.
Among the inventors who have
signided their intentions of attending
the celebration are Orville Wright. CO.
inventor Of the airplane; Prof. Michael
I. Pupin, pioneer in electromagnetic
particularly in connection with long
distance telephony; Prof. Elihu Thorn
son, inventor of electric welding and
numerous other developments in light
ing and power; DR.. L. H. Baekeland
inventor of Bakelite, Of Photographic
papers and innovations in organic
chemistry and electric insulation.
DR.. William r. Whitney, director Of
the research laboratories of the Cen
eral Electric Company DR.. Charles L.
Reese, consultant for E. I. du Pont de
Nemours; DR.. William D. Coolidge, in
ventor Of ductile tungsten and X-Ray
developments; L. w Wallace of the
American Engineering Council.
Lee Pin Inventor.
DR.. w. S. Lee, inventor Of the Lee
pin and a pioneer in high tension
hydroelectric power development; Prof
A. D. Little, inventor of processes for
chrome tanning, electrolytic manufac-
ture of CELEBRATES, artificial silk, gas and
petroleum; Prof Wilder D. Bancroft of
Cornell, prominent In the chemical
world; DR.. Howard McClanahan of the
Franklin Institute.
John Hayes Hammond, jr., inventor
OF torpedoes, proiectfles and radio con-
400 peace and wartime patents here
and abroad. Carleton Ellis, inventor
and chemist In petroleum products
gasoline manufacture, oils, waxes, resins
and other compounds.