Noted Inventor to Give Service to United States

With Thomas A. Edison's acceptance of the Chairmanship, assuring the organization of the Advisory Committee on Naval Inventions projected by Secretary Daniels, interest centered on the identity of its other members. Mr. Daniels declined to talk of any but the general aspects of his plan, yet the group from among which the councilors will be chosen took pretty definite form. Chief among the names suggested were those of Alexander Graham Bell, whose perfection of the telephone is only one of his scientific achievements; Simon Lake, builder of submarines; Orville Wright, inventor of the first successful heavier than air flying machine; Hudson Maxim, inventor of explosives; Henry Ford, expert in gasoline engine construction; Nikola Tesla, electrical expert and inventor of turbines, and John Hays Hammond, jr., thirty-year-old son of the mining engineer, who has conducted successful experiments in the control of torpedoes and boats by wireless.