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National Inventors Council Has Considered 91,823 Inventions, Chairman Kettering Announces at Schenectady Meeting
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National Inventors Council Has Considered gI,8z3 Inventions, Chairman Kettering Announces at Schenectady Meeting.-A neu peak in American inventiveness has been reached, DR. CHARLES F. KETTERING, Chairman of the National Inventors Council, announced recently upon the occasion of the Council’s meeting at the General Patriotic Americans, many of them non-proElectric Company. fessionals, have submitted to date 91,823 suggestions which the!. believe will help the Army and Navy in winning the war. In a two-clay meeting of the National Inventors Council, a government agencv under the Department of Commerce, the most recent and promising of these inventions were discussed and evaluated preliminary to making them available to the armed services. “Ideas have been welcomed from amateurs because their suggestions in many cases prove fruitful and of practical use,” Dr. Kettering said. Often 500 to IOOO inventive ideas are received in a day at the \;l’ashington Offices of the National Inventors Council. Dr. \\‘illiam D. Coolidge, director of the General Electric Research Laboratory is a member of the Council, which consists of 14 other leader-~ in industry and science. Ii. H. 0. Electronic Robot Measures Creep of Metals.-An electronic robot, including an electric eye, now measures the rate at which metals flow when heated and stressed in the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, N. U. Not only does this release for other important work the attention of a man who formerly watched the metal sample through a microscope; it is also more sensitive than any human observer and more reliable. It watches all day without ever getting tired. These measurements of the “creep” or flow of materials are being made by DR. SAUL DUSHMAN, assistant director of the Laboratory. Since a steam turbine, for example, operates with greater efficiency the higher the temperature, metallurgists try to create alloys for parts which will hold their shape under high stress and the greatest possible operating temperatures. Last y’ear Dr. Dushman described an accelerated method for making creep tests. The usual test uses a bar of the sample metal, which is heated in a special furnace to the range of operating temperatures (SOO’-1400’ F.). Such tests ma)-
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National Inventors Council Has Considered gI,8z3 Inventions, Chairman Kettering Announces at Schenectady Meeting.-A neu peak in American inventiveness has been reached, DR. CHARLES F. KETTERING, Chairman of the National Inventors Council, announced recently upon the occasion of the Council’s meeting at the General Patriotic Americans, many of them non-proElectric Company. fessionals, have submitted to date 91,823 suggestions which the!. believe will help the Army and Navy in winning the war. In a two-clay meeting of the National Inventors Council, a government agencv under the Department of Commerce, the most recent and promising of these inventions were discussed and evaluated preliminary to making them available to the armed services. “Ideas have been welcomed from amateurs because their suggestions in many cases prove fruitful and of practical use,” Dr. Kettering said. Often 500 to IOOO inventive ideas are received in a day at the \;l’ashington Offices of the National Inventors Council. Dr. \\‘illiam D. Coolidge, director of the General Electric Research Laboratory is a member of the Council, which consists of 14 other leader-~ in industry and science. Ii. H. 0. Electronic Robot Measures Creep of Metals.-An electronic robot, including an electric eye, now measures the rate at which metals flow when heated and stressed in the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, N. U. Not only does this release for other important work the attention of a man who formerly watched the metal sample through a microscope; it is also more sensitive than any human observer and more reliable. It watches all day without ever getting tired. These measurements of the “creep” or flow of materials are being made by DR. SAUL DUSHMAN, assistant director of the Laboratory. Since a steam turbine, for example, operates with greater efficiency the higher the temperature, metallurgists try to create alloys for parts which will hold their shape under high stress and the greatest possible operating temperatures. Last y’ear Dr. Dushman described an accelerated method for making creep tests. The usual test uses a bar of the sample metal, which is heated in a special furnace to the range of operating temperatures (SOO’-1400’ F.). Such tests ma)-