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COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND THE ARTS.
COMMITTEE
ON
SCIENCE
AND
THE
[J. F. I.
ARTS.
(Abstract of Proceedings of Stated Meeting held Wednesday, October5, z93e.) HALL OF THE COMMITTEE, PHILADELPHIA, OCTOBER 5, I932. MR. EDWARDL. CLARKin the Chair. The following reports were presented for first reading: No. 2943 : Work of Doctor Reginald A. Fessenden. No. 2947: Non-Windlng Clock. No. 2955: Railway Car Cushion Underframe. No. 2958: Planetarium. The following Minute on the death of Mr. Hugo Bilgram was presented and adopted: In the death of Hugo Bilgram at his home in Moylan-Rose Valley, on August 27, I932, The Franklin Institute has lost an outstanding member, and the Committee on Science and the Arts an irreplaceable coworker. Mr. Bilgram was born at Memmingen, Bavaria, January I3, I847; was graduated from the Augsburg Maschinenbau Schule in 1865 where he studied Mechanical Engineering; came to America in I869 and soon thereafter became an American citizen. He became a member of The Franklin Institute September 20, i872 and was elected a member of the Committee on Science and the Arts June 16, 1873. He served the Committee as Chairman during the year 19o6 to 19o7. For more than fifty years Mr. Bilgram was the active head of the Bilgram Machine Works, during which time no product left his plant without having a high degree of accuracy. In 1883 he invented and built the first Bevel Gear Generator--a device for which he received the award of the Elliott Cresson Medal in 1887. This invention established his reputation and the Bilgram gears are recognized as of the highest accuracy. In I929, those carrying on experiments for the production of sound moving pictures adopted the use of the Bilgram gear cutting machine which they found cut finer gears and increased the noiseless properties of them. Mr. Bilgram had many hobbies--microscopy, botany, geology and finance. Nothing pleased this kindly, courteous octogenarian more than to sit at the head of a revolving table loaded with microscopes and explain the objects under superobservat ion. He was the author of several books: ,Slide Valve Gears". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Involuntary Idleness". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Study of the Money Question". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Cause of Business Stagnation". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Cause of Business Depressions". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The last book was in collaboration with Mr. Louis Edward Levy.
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MEMBERSHIP NOTES.
In one of his works he clearly pointed out the grave defects in our present system of finance and predicted a period of world-wide depression resulting therefrom, if not corrected. He was an early member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Engineers' Club, Philadelphia Technischer Verein and American Academy of Political and Social Science. Mr. Bilgram's membership in the Committee on Science and the Arts extended uninterruptedly for nearly sixty years which exceeds the next longest membership by ten years. During that time he seldom missed a meeting and his thorough knowledge and wide experience was of inestimable value to the work of the Committee. The members of the Committee hereby express their high appreciation of their association with Mr. Bilgram in the Committee for many years and Resolve, That the Committee on Science and the Arts hereby record its deep regret at the death of Mr. Hugo Bilgram and express its sympathy with his family in their loss. And Further Resolve, That this report be spread upon the Minutes of the Committee on Science and the Arts and a copy sent to Mr. Bilgram's family. GEO. A. HOADLEY,
Secretary.
MEMBERSHIP NOTES. ELECTIONS TO MEMBERSHIP.
(Stated Meeting, Board of Managers, October z9, I932.) RESIDENT. MR. FRANK P. BROWN, Plumber (Retired), Philadelphia, Pa. MR. LEWIS G. SCHLEHNER, Building Superintendent, Elkins Park, Pa. NON-RESIDENT MEMBERSHIP. MR. GEORGE B. ALLEN, Chief Engineer, Dodge Brothers Corporation, Grosse Pointe Park, Mich. REV. GEORGE F. STROHAVER, S. J., Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. CHANGES OF ADDRESS. MR. CARL G. BARTH,6484 Woodcrest Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. COLONEL EDWIN M. CHANCE, I4OI Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. MR. WILLIAMCHANNINGCUSHING,5400 Greene Street, Philadelphia, Pa. MR. FREDERICA. DELANO, 1621 New Navy Building, i8th Street and Constitution Ave., Washington, D. C. MR. E. A. FAIRMAN,Casella Co., Magallanes, Chile, South America. MR. JOSEPH D. R. FREED, 35 Gateway Drive, Great Neck, L. I., New York. MR. HARRYA. GOULD,236 West Walnut Lane, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. MR. NATHANHAYWARD,JR., 85 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Mass. MR. JOHN J. L. HOUSTON,231 North I8th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND THE ARTS.
COMMITTEE
ON
SCIENCE
AND
THE
[J. F. I.
ARTS.
(Abstract of Proceedings of Stated Meeting held Wednesday, October5, z93e.) HALL OF THE COMMITTEE, PHILADELPHIA, OCTOBER 5, I932. MR. EDWARDL. CLARKin the Chair. The following reports were presented for first reading: No. 2943 : Work of Doctor Reginald A. Fessenden. No. 2947: Non-Windlng Clock. No. 2955: Railway Car Cushion Underframe. No. 2958: Planetarium. The following Minute on the death of Mr. Hugo Bilgram was presented and adopted: In the death of Hugo Bilgram at his home in Moylan-Rose Valley, on August 27, I932, The Franklin Institute has lost an outstanding member, and the Committee on Science and the Arts an irreplaceable coworker. Mr. Bilgram was born at Memmingen, Bavaria, January I3, I847; was graduated from the Augsburg Maschinenbau Schule in 1865 where he studied Mechanical Engineering; came to America in I869 and soon thereafter became an American citizen. He became a member of The Franklin Institute September 20, i872 and was elected a member of the Committee on Science and the Arts June 16, 1873. He served the Committee as Chairman during the year 19o6 to 19o7. For more than fifty years Mr. Bilgram was the active head of the Bilgram Machine Works, during which time no product left his plant without having a high degree of accuracy. In 1883 he invented and built the first Bevel Gear Generator--a device for which he received the award of the Elliott Cresson Medal in 1887. This invention established his reputation and the Bilgram gears are recognized as of the highest accuracy. In I929, those carrying on experiments for the production of sound moving pictures adopted the use of the Bilgram gear cutting machine which they found cut finer gears and increased the noiseless properties of them. Mr. Bilgram had many hobbies--microscopy, botany, geology and finance. Nothing pleased this kindly, courteous octogenarian more than to sit at the head of a revolving table loaded with microscopes and explain the objects under superobservat ion. He was the author of several books: ,Slide Valve Gears". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Involuntary Idleness". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Study of the Money Question". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Cause of Business Stagnation". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Cause of Business Depressions". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The last book was in collaboration with Mr. Louis Edward Levy.
I878 1889 1894 19o5 I914
Nov., 1 9 3 2 . ]
61I
MEMBERSHIP NOTES.
In one of his works he clearly pointed out the grave defects in our present system of finance and predicted a period of world-wide depression resulting therefrom, if not corrected. He was an early member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Engineers' Club, Philadelphia Technischer Verein and American Academy of Political and Social Science. Mr. Bilgram's membership in the Committee on Science and the Arts extended uninterruptedly for nearly sixty years which exceeds the next longest membership by ten years. During that time he seldom missed a meeting and his thorough knowledge and wide experience was of inestimable value to the work of the Committee. The members of the Committee hereby express their high appreciation of their association with Mr. Bilgram in the Committee for many years and Resolve, That the Committee on Science and the Arts hereby record its deep regret at the death of Mr. Hugo Bilgram and express its sympathy with his family in their loss. And Further Resolve, That this report be spread upon the Minutes of the Committee on Science and the Arts and a copy sent to Mr. Bilgram's family. GEO. A. HOADLEY,
Secretary.
MEMBERSHIP NOTES. ELECTIONS TO MEMBERSHIP.
(Stated Meeting, Board of Managers, October z9, I932.) RESIDENT. MR. FRANK P. BROWN, Plumber (Retired), Philadelphia, Pa. MR. LEWIS G. SCHLEHNER, Building Superintendent, Elkins Park, Pa. NON-RESIDENT MEMBERSHIP. MR. GEORGE B. ALLEN, Chief Engineer, Dodge Brothers Corporation, Grosse Pointe Park, Mich. REV. GEORGE F. STROHAVER, S. J., Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. CHANGES OF ADDRESS. MR. CARL G. BARTH,6484 Woodcrest Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. COLONEL EDWIN M. CHANCE, I4OI Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. MR. WILLIAMCHANNINGCUSHING,5400 Greene Street, Philadelphia, Pa. MR. FREDERICA. DELANO, 1621 New Navy Building, i8th Street and Constitution Ave., Washington, D. C. MR. E. A. FAIRMAN,Casella Co., Magallanes, Chile, South America. MR. JOSEPH D. R. FREED, 35 Gateway Drive, Great Neck, L. I., New York. MR. HARRYA. GOULD,236 West Walnut Lane, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. MR. NATHANHAYWARD,JR., 85 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Mass. MR. JOHN J. L. HOUSTON,231 North I8th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.