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THE American Society of Mechanical Engineers made its annual awards for distinguished service in engineering and science, and “for great and unique acts of an engineering nature that have accomplished a great and timely benefit to the public” on December 1 to Dr. Edward Bausch and Mr. Henry Ford, when Dr. Bausch received the A.S.M.E. Medal and Mr. Ford the Holley Medal, the former established in 1920 and the latter in 1923. The A.S.M.E. Medal is awarded once a year, “and that only for inventions and improvements of great merit in the technical and public sense”. Among the previous recipients have been H. G. Carlson, Dr. Robert A. Millikan, Dr. Ambrose Swasey, and other distinguished contributors, to the progress of engineering. In his long and notable career, which began with the construction of his first microscope in 1872, Dr. Bausch has been a constant contributor to engineering progress. At eighty-three years of age, he is still at work, and recently, with other members of the Bausch and Lomb Optical Co., has designed the contour measuring projector. This new instrument is proving itself a valuable inspection device in many types of industry. It is both a microscope and a projection apparatus of the highest quality and great accuracy with which a highly magnified profile of such parts as screw threads, gears, dies, gauges and shapers may be thrown upon a screen or chart for study and comparison.
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Dr E. Bausch and the Optical Industry of America. Nature 138, 963 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138963b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138963b0