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 Josephus Daniels, the Secretary of the Navy at the suggestion of Thomas Alva Ediso
William Lawrence Saunders was chairman of the Naval Consulting Board in 1916
Thomas Robins was an American inventor involved in the Naval Consulting Board.
Thomas Edison
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Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman known for his work on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, electric power distribution and early motion pictures. The merger of the
Naval Consulting Board
…1880s for two previous committees), was a US Navy organization established in 1915 by Josephus Daniels, the Secretary of the Navy at the suggestion of Thomas Alva Edison. Daniels created the Board with membership drawn from eleven engineering and scientific organizations two years before the United States entered World…
Edison, c. 1922
Edison in 1861
Group photo taken as a postcard of the employees in front of the factory at Edison's Newark Factory on Ward St in 1873. Edison is visible peeking out of the fourth floor window; he wrote that he was too busy working to come downstairs.
Edison with the second model of his phonograph in Mathew Brady's studio in Washington, D.C. in April 1878