among these companies the "Westinghouse" electric company in Chicago, and three German electrical companies...

And Mr. Hoover, the former President of the United States, sent him a letter in which he expressed to him his admiration for his genius and for the genius of the Arab world.

In 1932 the assembly of the American electrical institution in New York conferred upon him the title of "Young Man of Electrical Science." This title is granted only to one who has invented, originated, and studied in the art of electricity for a period of ten years.

And after the testimonials of Western scientists to Kamel's the-ories had multiplied, the General Electric company summoned the engineers who opposed him to a great meeting, held at the company's office in 1932; a long debate took place between him and them, which ended with Kamel emerging from it victorious.

In 1932 the company in which he worked delegated him to represent it at the world electrical congress held in Paris at that date. He was unable to travel, but wrote an ample report in the French language which was read at the congress and met with general approval.

These are his regis-tered inventions

The inventions he had registered up to the year 1932, according to the statement the company published in that year, reached forty-three; and the newspapers of the Mahjar said after his death that his inventions reached sev-enty, among them some relating to television and to the harnessing of the sun's rays.

Following is a table of these inventions, copied from the official register of the American patent office:

1928 — Transmission of pic-

tures and scenes. 1933 — Distance-output machine. 1930 — Electric vapor machine. 1930 — Transmission of pictures and scenes. 1929 — " " " " " 1930 — Pressure-gauge machine. 1927 — Pressure-regulating machine. 1928 — Electric vapor arc machine. 1928 — Rectification method. 1935 — Method for regulating heat. 1932 — Method of electrical output. 1930 — Machine for converting power. 1931 — " " " " " 1931 — " " " " " 1933 — " " " " " 1932 — Electrical conversion circuit. 1934 — " " " " " 1933 — Converting electric-valve machine. 1932 — Machine for converting electric power. 1931 — " " " " " 1934 — Converting electric-valve machine. 1934 — " " " " " 1934 — " " " " " 1935 — Compound-method rectifier. 1933 — Method of preventing imbalance in the com-pound-method rectifier. 1934 — Electric-valve conversion method and excitation machine.

Kamel al-Sabbah and Herbert Brown 1929 — Distribution method. 1932 — Method of distributing areas. 1929 — Corrective methods. 1932 — The fixed conduit expressing the circuits.

Kamel Sabbah and S. Herskind 1932 — Method of electri-cal output.

Kamel Sabbah and A. Mittag 1934 — Converting elec-tric-valve method.

Kamel Sabbah and Mervin Morack 1933 — Converting electric-valve method. 1934 — Electric-valve method and excita-tion machine.

Kamel Sabbah and Louis Dobinson 1928 — Electric vapor method.

Kamel Sabbah and Chauncey Whitney — Gauge of the electric voltage regulator.

And the following inventions had arrived, before the great departed's death, from the reg-

istry office in Washington, in the name of Ibn al-Sabbah:

— A method for controlling the power issuing from the electric rectifier. — Guards and regula-tors for protecting electric recti-fiers from danger. — A method for preventing violent surges of electric power in mercury rectifiers. — A modern pick-up for preventing the occurrence of a reflected electrical explosion, a converter for immense electrical charges. — A television appara-tus that converts the sun's rays into fire and immense electric power. — A television apparatus employing the electricity reflected by the action of light. — A televi-sion apparatus employing light as a regulator of the electric current.

How did Kamel die?

On the afternoon of Sunday, March 31, 1935, Kamel al-Sabbah and his friends went to the town of "Malone," where he inspected an airplane he had bought in order to make a journey in it to the Arab lands. On his return to "Schenectady," his friends' car went ahead of him, and his trace was lost near the town of "Elizabethtown." They then turned back, and found his car off the road, down a slope some fifteen feet in height, and found him dead in it.

The president of the "General Motors" company wrote to his father, saying: "Mr. Kamel al-Sabbah proved, during his ser-vice to our company, that he was one of the greatest mathematical thinkers in the American land, and his death is counted a great loss to the world of invention."

Such is a general glimpse of the life of this genius. How I wish that our government would profit from it to spread the spirit of enterprise, of research, and of learning in the souls of the students, and would work to immortalize his memory in a manner that opens the doors of inventive endeavor before the gifted — thereby rendering to Kamel al-Sabbah, to the new generation, and to the civilizing mission of Arabism in the world a great service!