First Meeting of the National Inventors Council
ID: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-4787]
Creator: Harris & Ewing
Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1940
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-4787
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Participants in the first meeting of the National Inventors Council, August 6, 1940. Standing left to right: Dr. Fin Sparre (1879-1944), Director of Research, Du Pont Corporation; Dr. Webster N. Jones, Dean of Engineering, Carnegie Institute of Technology; Frederick Morris Feiker (1881-1967), Dean, George Washington University School of Engineering; patent attorney Lawrence Langner (1890-1962); Watson Davis (1896-1967), Director of Science Service. Seated left to right: Frederick Morrell Zeder, vice-president, Chrysler Corporation; Conway P. Coe, U.S. Patent Commissioner; Dr. Charles Franklin Kettering (Chairman of Council), President, General Motors Research Corporation; Dr. Thomas Midgley (1889-1944), vice-president, Ethyl Gasoline Corporation; Dr. William David Coolidge, Director of General Electric Research Laboratories.
Subject
- Sparre, Fin 1879-1944
- Jones, Webster N
- Feiker, Frederick M (Frederick Morris) 1881-1967
- Langner, Lawrence 1890-1962
- Davis, Watson 1896-1967
- Zeder, Frederick Morrell
- Coe, Conway P
- Kettering, Charles Franklin 1876-1958
- Midgley, Thomas 1889-1944
- Coolidge, William David 1873-1975
- National Inventors Council (U.S.)
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
- Carnegie Institute of Technology
- George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science
- Science Service
- Chrysler Corporation
- United States Patent Office
- General Motors Corporation Research Laboratories
- Ethyl Corporation
- General Electric Company Research Laboratory
Cite as
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-4787
Repository Loc.
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Date
- 1940
- August 6, 1940
Restrictions & Rights
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- Copyright Not Evaluated
Topic
- Engineering
- Inventors
Form/Genre
Black-and-white photographs
Local number
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-4787]
Physical description
Gelatin silver prints