Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-05-10
EXHIBIT SHOWS
CLOCKS PROGRESS
Old and New Timepieces
on View at Neurological
Institute Session.

Members of the Theological Institute
OF America. an organization devoted
to the study and improvement of fine
watches and scientific precision in
struments, view an exhibit of ancient
and modern time-telling devices as
they held their annual convention
yesterday at the National Academy of
Sciences. Methods of measuring time
from primitive days down to the mod
ern era OF split-second watches were
demonstrated in the exhibit, which in
cluded reproductions of many early
timepieces copied by L. c. Eichner OF
Bloomfield. N. ].
Among these was a clepsydra. or
water clock, consisting of bowl
placed on the water, gradually sinking
as water seeped through a small hole
in the bottom. The period required be-
fore the bowl sank out OF sight was
used as a unit OF time. Also on ex-
hibit were time candles" which had
stripes painted on them at regular in
tervals. the tallow between one stripe
and the next melting in exactly an
hour.
w. c. Trent Speaks.
In line with the Institutes interest
in the development of all modern
scientific instruments dependent upon
the time factor, the delegates heard
an address by w. c. Trent of the
Aeronautics Instrument Section Of the
Bureau of Standards. describing re-
cent tests of lubricants used in time
pieces under subzero conditions Mr..
Trent said fish and mineral oils are
being developed which keep delicate
! airplane equipment in perfect working
| order at extremely low temperatures.
For the best grades made by watch
makers throughout the country who
took this years examinations, the
institute awarded scholarships to Clyde
J. Pecotte, Hornell, N. Y: Frank H.
Curtis, Moline. ILL.,: Worth Davis,
Great Falls, Mont, and James Drum
mond, Peoria, III. The scholarships
are given annually to encourage watch
makers and repair men to improve
the standard of their work, a primary
purpose of the institute, which has
as its members watch and clock manu-
facturers, scientists and collectors OF
timepieces.
Advisory Council Selected.
Each year nine members are Sc.
lected for the advisory council OF the
institute, which has total of u mem.
bers on the board. Those elected yes.
| terday were: Harrison F.. Babcock
Cleveland: DR. Albert L. Barrows OF
the National Research Council, Wash.
ington; Frank C. Beckwith, Lancaster
Pa; Ralph E. Gould, Bureau of Stand.
| ards, Washington; Fred c. Gruen
Cincinnati: Benjamin Mellenhoff, for.
mer president of the New York Horo-
logical Society; Herman Pedrick, Phil.
adelphia; Gean Roehrich. president OF
the New York Theological Society
and Stanley Pope. San Francisco.
The following were selected for
offices: Harrison F. Babcock. presi-
dent; Howard L. Beehler OF Lancaster
Pa. first vice president. Regional
vice presidents, Jacques lie Roy, New
York City; area 2, w. c. Donnelly,
Baltimore, Md; S. George Cochran,
Nashville; Stanley Pipe and Roland
c. Wilson. San Diego, Calf; Paul
Moore, Washington, executive secre-
tary, and Ralph E. Gould, Washing
ton. corresponding secretary.
This was the seventeenth consecu-
tive year that Mr. Moore has been
chosen executive secretary.