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THE inauguration of an Advisory Board of Inventors by Secretary Daniels, of the 

 United States Navy, is a commendable achievement of the highest order. Likewise is 

 the hearty support which the idea -has received from the prominent inventors who have 

 been fortunate enough to be invited to serve as advisors. Thus far, such names as Thomas 

 A. Edison, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Hudson Maxim, Orville Wright, Alexander Graham 

 Bell, Professor R. A. Fessenden, Peter Cooper Hewitt, Nikola Tesla, Lewis Nixon, Henry 

 Ford, Simon Lake and John Hays Hammond, Jr., have been mentioned in connection with the 

 Board. These names are all synonymous of some of America's greatest industries and dis- 

 coveries, and are truly household words. But the task before the men is one worthy of their 

 skilled efforts, for they shall be called upon to examine thousands of ideas among which may 

 lie many wonderful inventions requiring proper development. Their vast knowledge in many 

 fields will be a tremendous asset. 



It is but appropriate that the United States should at last have an Advisory Board of In- 

 ventors, for is it not the Americans who have given the warring nations a goodly part of their 

 fighting equipment the aeroplane, the submarine, the telegraph, the telephone and countless 

 other inventions? Yet America today^ has made less use of these inventions as applied to 

 warfare than the countries of Europe which have borrowed the ideas. In a large measure this 

 is due to the lack of encouragement to inventors in the past. It is a matter of history that 

 more than one American inventor, on failing to interest the authorities at Washington, has 

 gone to the European governments and by them has been accorded every possible facility to 

 demonstrate the worth of his ideas. 



All this will now be changed by the existence of the Advisory Board of Inventors. At 

 last the inventive genius of America the most versatile in the world will be granted a 

 hearing and accorded every possible facility for the testing and developing of new inventions 

 that may be of value to the Navy. In all probabilities there will be a testing ground established 

 where ideas, after, they have been approved of, can be tried out and subsequently developed 

 under proper and skilled guidance. Once more, the idea is a highly commendable one and 

 indeed worthy of the great men who have been given such an enviable opportunity of serving 

 their country's interests. 



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