Show Winner of Medal I IS I I Once Was alas as ain in m Shops I PITTSBURG John p-John AP John F. F Peters Pe- Pe j eminent engineer and n inventor r recipient of th ther thet 1929 Longstreth I medal was not so many years ago agoan agoan agoan I an unschooled workman who for recreation recreation rec rec- studied descriptive astronomy astron- astron omy Americas America's ri as a's His career is one oner of ot Am technical romances His youth was i spent on his fathers father's farm near Chambersburg Pa where his p parents parr par rents r urged him him to to become a a. a carp carpenter carpen carpen- n- n ter Instead he studied electricity and mechanical drawing at home At 20 he went to tc burg PItts-burg and appU applied d f for r admission to the two of ot the Westinghouse West Vest year ear electrical electrical course course Electric and l ing ing- company He was was' turned down for lack tacit of ot technical education Her ruse d a Westinghouse cours courson course on tool making tool and went to work for another Pittsburg organization as lis J electrician A year oar later he applied ap- ap I plied piled at the se gate with the lab labor r He got his hla jobin job jobIn In Inthe the shops and in three In-three three months w was s assistant foreman Next he lie at consider consider- considerably considerably ably l less pay to another n department For the 12 years following fallowing f tie fco spent most of ot his evenings studying mathematics and engineering and for recreation des descriptive astronomy astronomy astron astron- omy II Finally aUY he became consulting engineer engineer en en- for tho entire Westinghouse engineering organization He patented patented patented pat pat- 30 inventions s. The Tho Longstreth was awarded a him him this year for his his- invention of the an ah automatic a camera for recording strokes of or lightning upon electric Wires Only one other instrument photographs photo photo- graphs raph lightning the tho cathode ray y But nut that instrument requires attendants Tho The graph grapit is automatic n needing only aroil a aroll roll roil of of new film once a 30 week It stands watch in many m ny places wholesale gathering records of lightning lightning light light- N. N ning The Th th medal n ed l was as awarded by the institute of ot Philadelphia |