Medal for Col. Carty

Before many scientists and their friends, in the United Engineering Societies Building, on West Thirty-ninth street, Manhattan, Dr. John J. Carty, Colonel in the United States Army Signal Corps and Chief Engineer of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, last night received the Edison Gold Medal, in recognition of his work in developing the science and art of telephone engineering. The presentation was the feature of the annual meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.

Colonel Carty is the eighth scientist to receive this honor, the other medalists being Ellhu Thomson, Frank J. Sprague, George Westinghouse, William Stanley, Charles F. Brush, Alexander Graham Bell and Nikola Tesla.