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60 to New York Office of [[underlined in red]] Naval Consulting Board [[/underlined in red]] where Lieutenant Merrick showed me model of oscillating [[underlined in red]] propeller for airplanes. [[/underlined in red]] Took model [[underlined in red]] along to Dayton [[/underlined in red]] Train 6:02 P.M for [[underlined in red]] Dayton [[/underlined in red]] there met [[underlined in red]] Col. Carthy ₓ [[/underlined in red]] [[notation in left margin]] of Telephone Co ₓ [[/notation in left margin]] U.S. Signal Corps and [[underlined in red]] Elmer Sperry [[/underlined in red]] who are also going there. Snowy landscape. Cold night. Feb 1. Arrived several hours late at 1 P.M. in time for lunch [[underlined in red]] Major Hall detailed as chief for aviation construction [[/underlined in red]] works here took care of us and invited [[underlined in red]] Sperry and me [[/underlined in red]] for lunch with [[underlined in red]] Prof. Sabin of Harvard, a physicist who [[/underlined in red]] has been recently in England France and Italy and who seems to be [[underlined in red]] special [[/underlined in red]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 61 [[underlined in red]] adviser [[/underlined in red]] here. I do not know in what official capacity. He seems a [[underlined in red]] rather nervous kind [[/underlined in red]] of a chap, and the way he speaks English with a very english accent altho' says he is born and bred in Ohio - gives him [[underlined in red]] an air of artificiality. [[/underlined in red]] Also present [[underlined in red]] Major Carthy [[/underlined in red]] of U.S Signal Corps and Mr. [[underlined in red]] Talbot manager of Dayton. Wright Airplane Co [[/underlined in red]] Later on came [[underlined in red]] Lawrence Sperry, [[/underlined in red]] lank and lean and [[underlined in red]] boyish looking in his new uniform of Second Lieutenant of Navy Aviation and [[/underlined in red]] Commander [[underlined in red]] McCormick, [[/underlined in red]] U.S.N. who came specially to see progress on [[underlined in red]] Sperry's [[strikethrough]] aerial [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined in red]] Aerial Torpedo. [[/underlined in red]] Sperry tells me latest results of big machine were as far as [[underlined in red]] .48 miles with only 1/4% error in length and 1/2% error in width. [[/underlined in red]] [[two red exclamation points in left margin]]