any, electrical and mechanical engineer
and inventor of many automobile devices. Howard E. Coffin,
vice-president of Hudson Motor Car Company and active in the development
of internal-combustion engines.

From the American Institute of Mining Engineers: William Laurence
Saunders, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ingersoll-Rand
Company and inventor of many devices for subaqueous and rock drilling.
Benjamin Bowditch Thayer, president of the Anaconda Copper Mining
Company and an authority on explosives.

From the American Electro Chemical Society: Joseph William Richards,
professor of Electro-Chemistry at Lehigh and author of numerous works on
electrometallurgy. Lawrence Addicks, consulting engineer for Phelps,
Dodge and Company and authority on the metallurgy of copper.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers: William Leroy Emmet, engineer
with the General Electric Company. He designed and perfected the
development of the Curtis Turbine and was the first serious promoter of
electric propulsion for ships. Spencer Miller, inventor of ship-coaling
apparatus and the breeches-buoy device used in rescues from shipwrecks.

From the American Society of Aeronautic Engineers: Henry Alexander Wise
Wood, engineer and manufacturer of printing-machinery and student of
naval aeronautics. Elmer Ambrose Sperry, founder of Sperry Electric
Company, designer of electric appliances and gyroscope stabilizer for
ships and airplanes.

Just what service this board has performed is in the keeping of the
government. But that it has been a distinguished service we may not
doubt. Seated in their headquarters at Washington, their minds centred
upon the various problems of the sea which the war brought forth, they
have unquestionably exerted a constructive influence no less vital than
that played by the officers and men of the navy on the fighting front.
Only one announcement ever came from this board, and that was when
William L. Saunders gave forth the statement that a means of combating
the submarine had been devised. This early in the war. Doubt as to the
strict accuracy of the statement came from other members of the
Inventions Board, and then the whole matter was hushed. Mr. Saunders
said nothing more and neither did his colleagues.

But whether emanating from the lucubrations of Mr. Edison's board, or
wherever devised, we know that the American Navy has applied many
inventions to the work of combating the under-sea pirate. A typ