. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. attention to inventions as modern as clrift-e\aluating de\'ices for airplanes. Price obtained over KHJ patents on liis inventions during his career. At least two of them were awarded after his death. Perhaps the most eloquent testimony to the excellence and practicality of his inventions is that contained in the following telegram, preserved in one of his scrapbooks: Webster, Mass. Nov. 8, 1904 Mr. VV. G. Price, Mgr. Elec. Truck Dept., Standard .Steel Car Company, Pittsbing, Pa. Dear sir: We have operated for six months your truck 0-50; can
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. attention to inventions as modern as clrift-e\aluating de\'ices for airplanes. Price obtained over KHJ patents on liis inventions during his career. At least two of them were awarded after his death. Perhaps the most eloquent testimony to the excellence and practicality of his inventions is that contained in the following telegram, preserved in one of his scrapbooks: Webster, Mass. Nov. 8, 1904 Mr. VV. G. Price, Mgr. Elec. Truck Dept., Standard .Steel Car Company, Pittsbing, Pa. Dear sir: We have operated for six months your truck 0-50; can find no defects in same; it rides perfectly. Cost of mainte- nance nothing. Braking attachments superior to any \vc ever had in operation. You may wriie any testimonial you desire and sign mv name to same, also same for Mr. Meller. Yours truly. Signed; J. D. Potter, Supt. [The Consolidated Railway Company] Price's success at improving street cars led him and his son to play with the idea of designing a complete automobile. They did not go ahead with that idea, however, because Price had a strong belief that auto- mobiles would never be more than "just a rich man's ; "Too bad," his grandson wrote 40 years later. "Between the two of them, they could have built cpiite a car!" Large Price CuiTcnt Meters Of all Price's inventions, those that most held his interest and attention throughout his long engineering career pertained to his current meters. Four patents on such meters, scattered over a period of 41 years, were issued to him. He wrote tiumerous articles about them for trade and scientific magazines and took an active part in discussing them at such meetings as those of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the West- ern Society of Engineers, and the American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science, in all of which he held membership. The year 1879 was an especially eventful one for Price. That was the year when the Mississippi R
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