Spencer Heath Archive

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Carbon of typed page of biographical material, presumably to be used in promoting Citadel, Market and Altar to prospective publishers.

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PERSONAL MEMORANDUM

Spencer Heath is a retired engineer, designer of mechanical and electrical apparatus, attorney-at-law (LL.B. and LL.M.), inventor and devel­oper of specialties in aeronautical engineering. For some years he was at­torney and technical aid to Christopher and Simon Lake in connection with submarines and early aircraft, and he was similarly associated with Emile Berliner, inventor of the telephone transmitter and of the flat record for talking machines and also a pioneer in the aeronautical field.

 Mr. Heath was an active member of the Aero Club of America, the organ­ization of sportsmen, scientists and inventors that so greatly fostered aviation in its infant days, and during the First World War he was a mem­ber of the Engineering Standards Committee of the Society of Automotive Engineers. He had previously established his own research and manufactur­ing business in connection with which he developed many aeronautical inven­tions and was given certificates and other recognition by the government for large volume production, especially of the then-celebrated “Paragon” propellers.

 After the War, Mr. Heath continued his engineering developments, fin­ally selling all his inventions and going concerns to a large aeronautical corporation for whom he became research engineer in this country and abroad until about ten years ago. He then indulged a life-long interest by exam­ining the basic principles of the natural sciences with a view to develop­ing a new natural science of the social phenomenon. In this pursuit, he aided in establishing one of the now well-known schools of social science in New York City, where he taught for three and one-half years.

 Recently Mr. Heath has devoted himself almost exclusively to a study of the fundamental principles underlying the natural sciences and upon these same principles laying the foundation for a new natural science, the sci­ence of society. Although he spends much time in New York City, his permanent home is in Maryland near Baltimore, where he began his natural science researches while indulging his taste for horticulture and ornamental gar­dening.

 On one side of the family tree Mr. Heath’s ancestors were Quakers, and he himself is a member of the Wider Quaker Fellowship. On the other side they were workers for social and political reforms. He claims, however, that he is not a reformer but a discoverer of what the world’s social her­itage is (as distinguished from its political) — how it has brought mankind up from barbarism and now only awaits a dispassionate understanding of it to save and bless them more and more.