National Inventors Council Has Considered 91,823 Inventions, Chairman Kettering Announces at Schenectady Meeting
✍ Scribed by R.H.O
- Book ID
- 104132902
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1942
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 69 KB
- Volume
- 234
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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✦ Synopsis
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 Electric Company.
Patriotic Americans, many of them non-professionals, 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.
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