Naval Consulting Board
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The Naval Consulting Board also known as the Naval Advisory Board was a US Navy organization established in 1915 by Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels. During World War One, Daniels created the Board to provide "machinery and facilities for utilizing the natural inventive genius of Americans to meet the new conditions of warfare."[1] Daniels asked Thomas Edison to chair the Board. Daniels was worried that the US was unprepared for the new conditions of warfare and needed new technology.[2] Members included Elmer Sperry, Peter Hewitt, Hudson Maxim, Matthew Bacon Sellers II, Howard E. Coffin, Andrew J. Riker, Thomas Robbins, W.R. Whitney, L.H. Baekelan, Frank Julian Sprague, Benjamin G. Lamme, Robert Simpson Woodward, Arthur Gordan Webster, Andrew Murray Hunt, Alfred Craven, William Lawrence Saunders, Benjamin Bowditch Thayer, Joseph William Richards, Lawrence Addicks, William Le Roy Emmet, Spencer Miller, and Henry Alexander Wise Wood.[3]
During World War I, the board was responsible for approving camouflage schemes for civilian ships, including one invented by William MacKay.
The Board was subdivided into a number committees, including the Committee on Aeronautics and Aeronautical Motors.
[edit] References
- ^ Pearson, Lee, Developing the Flying Bomb, Naval Air Systems Command
- ^ L. N. Scott, Naval Consulting Board of the United States (Washington, 1920), 286
- ^ Information Annual, 1915, A Continuous Cyclopedia and Digest of Current Events, R.R. Bowker Company (New York ,1916), 615
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