Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2315

Letter and enclosure to the A. N. Marquis Company, Marquis Publications Bldg, Chicago 11, Illinois, June 12, 1948. Also carbon of entry for the year 1953

 

 

Gentlemen:

Responding to your letter and card I send attached hereto and for such use as you may see fit a typewritten sketch of such matters concerning my interests and activities as may be of interest to the general public.

     I enclose also a leaflet outlining some of the results of research in the field of Socionomy, — the science that examines society objectively and primarily with respect to how it operates (not how it fails), after the manner of useful research in all other fields.

     Thanking you for your interest, I am,

Sincerely,

   

Spencer Heath

Address until July first,

15 Arlington Street

Pittsfield, Mass.

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HEATH, Spencer, LL.B., LL.M. Research engineer, aeronautical, retired, lately engaged in research upon the social as distinguished from political organization. Born Vienna, Va. Jan. 3, 1876. Educated public and Corcoran Scientific Schools and National University Law School, Washington, D. C. For some years patent counsel and technical aid to Christopher and Simon Lake in connection with submarines and early aircraft. Similar association, 1910-12, with Emilie Berliner, inventor of the telephone transmitter and flat disk records for gramophones. Also pioneer in aeronautical research and active member of the Aero Club of America, composed of sportsmen, scientists and inventors who great­ly fostered aviation in its infant days. During World War I he was active in the Society of Automotive Engineers as a member of its Engineering Standards Committee. He had previously established his own research and manufacturing in which he developed many aero­nautical inventions and for which he was given government certifi­cates and other official recognition principally for his unique mass production of the “Paragon” propellers then widely known and supplied in the United States and abroad. After World War I he con­centrated research upon and demonstrated power-operated controllable and reversible pitch propellers and in 1929 sold all his patents and technical facilities to the Bendix Aviation Corporation for whom he became research engineer in this country and abroad. Retired in 1931, he devoted himself to discovering the common basis of the phys­ical sciences and founding thereon an objective science of the so­cial organization. In 1933 he aided the establishment of a school of social science In New York City where he taught for nearly four years. More recently, under the title, Citadel, Market and Altar, he has outlined the basic structure of free community organization in terms of reciprocal energy flow and exchange. Designer of mechanical and electrical apparatus, attorney-at-law, inventor and developer of specialties in aero-engineering, pioneer in basic social research. Publications: Propeller Theories, Journal of Franklin Institute, 1912; The Aeronautical Screw Propeller, Journal of American Institute of Naval Architects, 1916 (circa); Articles on Aeronautical Engineering, various journals, 1912-30. “Roadsend Gardens,” Lawyers Hill, Elkridge, Maryland and 11 Waverly Place, New York 3, N. Y.

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Transcript from A.N. Marquis Publication

Who’s Who in the East, 1953.

 

    HEATH, Spencer, engineer: Born Vienna, VA, January 3, 1876; son of Spencer Anson and Selinda Amelia (Payne) Heath. Educated Corcoran Scientific School; LL.B., National University, Washington, 1905, LL.M. 1906. Married Marie Holm, May 2, 1899. Children — Marguerite, Lucile, Beatrice. Patent Counsel and technical aid to Christopher and Simon Lake in connection with submarines and early aircraft, 1908-10, Emile Berliner, 1910-12; pioneer in aeronautical research 1910-30. Established research and manufacturing developing aeronautical inventions such as mass production of Paragon propellers, 1912-18. Concentrated research upon and demonstrated power-operated controllable and reversible pitch propellers; sold patents and technical facilities to Bendix Corporation, became research engineer, 1929. Retired for research on common basis of physical sciences and founding thereon an objective science of social organization (socionomy), 1931. Aided in establishment of school of social sciences in New York City, teacher, 1933. Outline basic structure of free community organization in terms of reciprocal energy flow and exchange, Citadel Market and Altar, 1946. Member Society of Automotive Engineers (Engineering Standards Committee), Aero Club of America, contributor to various journals. Inventor and developer specialties in aero-engineering. Home: Roadsend Gardens, Lawyers Hill, Elkridge, MD. Office: 11 Waverly Place, New York City 3.