Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1915 — AN INVENTOR OF MERIT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AN INVENTOR OF MERIT

William Lawrence Saunders of Plainfield, N. J., who has been appointed to the United States naval advisory board bjrSecretary Daniels, is prominent in mffie engineering circles for his mariy Inventions. He designed and patented apparatus for subaqueous drilling, using the tube and water jet system now in general use. His rock drilling and quarryifig devices, track and bar channelers, the radial axe system of coal mining and the system of pumping liquids by compressed air, now extensively used by the Russian oil fields, have given him high rank as an inventor of merit.