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Show INVENTORS OF UNITED STATES IRE MOBILIZED Experts Nominated by Eleven Great Engineering-and Engineering-and Scientific Societies Respond to Call. THOMAS A. EDISON WILL BE CHAIRMAN First Meeting to Be Held October 6; Secretary of Navy Announces Success Suc-cess of His Plan. WASHINGTON. Sept. The mem bership of the naval advisory Inward, lhe organization of experts nominated by eleven great engineering and scientific societies to contribute their Inventive grniuaes lo (he American navy, was announced an-nounced today by Secretary Daniels. The firm meeting will be .held at the navy , dera rimeni Wednesday. October 8. with the chairman, Thomas A Edison, presiding. pre-siding. 1 "Desiring to make available lhe latent inventive genius- of our country to 1m pi ove the navj . " said Mr. Daniels In making his announcement, "a short while ago I requested Thonui A. Edison to become be-come chairman of an advisory board of prominent men who would make up the board. M . Edison, frith lhe patriotism ( haractcrtsi ic of American inventors, ac- epicd ihe call to duty. The plan adopt-rd adopt-rd for selecting the pMittbftTl of the advisory ad-visory board was as follows. 1 requested request-ed eleven great engineering and scientific scien-tific societies to select oy popular election elec-tion two members to represent them on t he board. The result has been most atatifying. I have rereD e! tire nominations nomina-tions of all these societies ami have accepted ac-cepted them, and it only remains to have a meeting, organic and aetermine the method of procedure in order to utilise to the bes; adv a mage this mobilisation of the talent and genius of our great country." Members of Board. The members of the board ami the societies so-cieties which nominated them follow: American Aeronautical society Mudaon Maxim. Brooklyn, ordnance and explosive expert; Matthew Bacon Sellers. Baltimore, Balti-more, authority on aeronautics. American Society of Automobile Engineers Engi-neers How aril E. coffin, Detroit. Mich., and Andrew .1 Riker. Bridgeport. Conn., inventors, automobile builders and now vice presidents of large automobile manufacturing man-ufacturing companies. The Inventors' guild Dr. Peter Cooper Hewitt, New York, inventor of appliance." for telephones, hjdroplanes. aeroplanes, balloons and electric lights, aud Thomas Robbins. Stamford, Conn., inventor of many mechanical devices. Including the belt conveyor' for coa! and ore. Noted Chemists. American Chemical society Dr. w. R. Whitney, Schenectady, N. V., creator and director of the research laboratory of the General Electric company. L. H. Baekeian, Tonkers, N. Y., a native of Belgium, famed particularly for ihe Invention of a photographic papei . American Institute of American EngineersFrank Engi-neersFrank .1 ulian Sprague. New York, an early assist a nt of Edison, who built the first electrically trained gun for the navy; Benjamin G. Umitie, Pittsburg Inventor In-ventor and head of a committee which passes upon all WV.si Inghouse inventions. America n Mai hematical society Robert Simpson Woodward, president of the Carnegie Car-negie institute at Washington, D. C, and an authority on astronomy. Dr. Arthur Gordon Webster. Worcester. Mass., professor pro-fessor of physics at Clark university, American Society of Civil Engineers A nd re w Murray Hunt, New York, experienced ex-perienced in development of hydro-elec-Lrlc steam and gas planls; Alfred Craven. New York, chief engineer of the New York public service commission. Mining Engineers. The American Institute of Mining Engineers En-gineers Wiiilam Lawrence Sa unders, New York, Inventor and engineer, and Benjamin Bo wd itch Thayer, New York, metallurgist and explosive expert. The A merican Electro-Chemical society Dr. William Richards, South Bethlehem, Ta., professor of metallurgy at Lehigh university, a nd Lawrence Addicka, Chrome, N. J., metallurgical engineer. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers En-gineers Wlllia m Lerpy Emmet, Schenectady, Schenec-tady, N. Y., engineer and Invenior and first serious promoter of electric slijp pro-pulsion, pro-pulsion, a nd Bperrcer Miller. South Orange. Or-ange. N. J., Inventor of apparatus that has simplified coaling of ships and of lhe breeches buoy device now used by the roaal suard service. The American Society of Aeronautic Engineers Henry Alexander Wise Wood, regarded by many as the world's foremost a utliority on the engineering fea lures of the art of printing, and Elmer A. Sperry, electrical Inventor and manufacturer. |