The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts: A Sketch of Its Organization and HistoryThe Institute, 1895 - 103 Seiten |
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Actuary adopted Alexander Dallas Bache American annual election application appointed approved ARTICLE arts and manufactures award bequest Board of Managers Board of Trustees building by-laws Certificate of Merit Chairman Coleman Sellers collection Committee on Science Committee on Sectional corporation donors duties Edward Longstreth Medal Electrical Exhibition Elliott Cresson Medal Engineers Fraley Franklin Insti Franklin Institute Franklin Journal George Washington Smith gift held industries interest International Electrical Exhibition inventions investigation John Scott Legacy lectures machines Matthias W mechanic arts Medal of Merit meeting members present membership Merrick mittee month names Oliver Evans organization payment Pennsylvania persons Premium and Medal President Prof promotion purchase purpose receive record reference Robert E scientific Scott Legacy Premium Second Class Secretary SECT Sectional Arrangements Society sub-committee thereof thousand dollars tion tute United valuable vote of two-thirds WILLIAM H William Sellers William Strickland
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Seite 69 - SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the president or, in his absence, of one of the vice-presidents...
Seite 63 - SEC. 3. The object of the said corporation shall be the promotion and encouragement of manufactures and the mechanical and useful arts, by the establishment of lectures on the sciences connected with them, by the formation of cabinets of models, minerals, machines, materials and products, by exhibitions and premiums, by a library and by all such measures as they may judge expedient.
Seite 88 - ... either for some discovery in the arts and sciences, or for the invention or improvement of some useful machine, or for some new process, or combination of materials in manufactures, or for ingenuity, skill, or perfection in workmanship.
Seite 49 - ... of the United States Patent Office. Over two hundred models, many of them of rare interest, were arranged on tables and so labeled as to clearly indicate their title and purpose. A complete list appears in the catalogue, and the committee appreciate the kindness of the Commissioner of Patents, and Mr. CJ Kintner. examiner in electricity, manifested in the loan and preparation of this display. Many individuals and firms added interest to the collection by sending machines of value. Prominent among...
Seite 3 - The Promotion and Encouragement of Manufactures, and the Mechanic and Useful Arts, by the establishment of Popular Lectures on the Sciences connected with them ; by the formation of a Cabinet of Models and Minerals...
Seite 77 - York, and conduct the correspondence of the society, under the direction of the Board. He shall be subject to the direction and control of the Board of Managers, by whom his salary is to be fixed and paid. He shall be exclusively employed in conducting the correspondence of the Society, and, under the direction of the Board, in promoting its general interests, by traveling or otherwise. Should his office become vacant by death, resignation, or...
Seite 86 - Philadelphia, directing that the interest and dividend to become receivable thereon should be laid out in premiums, to be distributed among ingenious men and women who make useful inventions, but no such premium to exceed twenty dollars, and that therewith shall be given a copper medal with this inscription :
Seite 87 - Hospital and Minor Trusts. The Committee on Wills' Hospital and Minor Trusts, by a resolution passed April 12, 1882, resolved that " they will favorably receive the names of any person whom the Franklin Institute may, from time to time, report to the Committee on Minor Trusts as worthy of receiving the John Scott Legacy Premium and Medal.
Seite 80 - Special meetings may be called by the Chairman, and shall be called by him upon the written request of five members of the Committee.
Seite 86 - In the event of an accumulation of the fund for medals beyond the sum of one hundred dollars, it is competent for the Committee on Science and the Arts to offer from such surplus a money premium for some special work on any mechanical or scientific subject that is considered of sufficient importance, or for meritorious papers presented to the Institute and published in its JOURNAL.