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Dr. Wesley Wait Dies at 88; Was Scientist and Inventor
Dr. Wesley Wait, 88, a dentist in Newburgh since 1885, died this morning (July 6, 1949) at his home, 124 North St., after a long illness. Dr. Wait was born in the Wait homestead near Montgomery on May 15, 1861. He was a son of Thomas and Mary Mould Wait, and a grandson of Samuel Wait, who came from Somersetshire, England, in 1821, and engaged in farming in Orange County. Samuel Wait married Miss Mary Welch before leaving his native land, and they became the parents of nine children, of whom Thomas was the fifth in order of birth. Dr. Wait was educated at Montgomery Academy and a New York preparatory school, and in 1881 entered the New York College of Dentistry. Eight months later he was appointed first assistant to Prof. J. B. Littig. He graduated a year ahead of his class.
AFTER GRADUATING from the College of Dentistry in 1884 with a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree he located first in Goshen where he practiced his profession for one year. A year later he moved his practice to Newburgh.
Not confining himself altogether to his profession, Dr. Wait established large greenhouses as a commercial enterprise, as well as the Consumers Ice Company. He was deeply interested in science and inventions from his early college days, and wrote and published as well as invented in many fields.
From 1891 to 1893 he represented New York State in the National Association of Inventors and Manufacturers, now the National Association of Manufacturers. Among his numerous inventions are the interlocking of steel columns and girders for building construction, including buildings, bridges, subways, mining supports, ships and like forms. Important tests were made at the laboratories of Columbia University in 1915, and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1929. The process indicates its superiority over both riveted and welded construction.
Among other of his inventions was a propeller blade for a helicopter. He was one of the first men to project the idea of lifting vehicles by means of the revolving blade. He also patented a water velocipede and wire fasteners for splicing wire.
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IN SCIENCE Dr. Wait's greatest work, on which he spent almost a lifetime of research, is the Basic Laws of the Universe. He was the first to show that all cosmic phenomena originated from the disobedient principle entering the universal realm of peace, creating an existence of discord within the universe in stratum form, creating a state that the clashing ions of the ether produced ionic friction, which, through a principle of a supreme environment, was reduced to a state of equilibrium of the two principles, producing law of interchange, as negative to positive. The environmental law is intelligence, a spirit to perform, coming into being with universal space and original substance.
Without this trinity, nothing could be. The stratum of phenomena is only a stratum surrounded by a state of the original supremacy, which holds discord in subjection to a law of perfect functioning.
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DR. WAIT wrote the "Scientific Survey of the Mississippi Valley," which the Senate and House of Congress recognized by their action in 1927-28. He also wrote, during the Harding administration, a document for world peace, that is now on file in the State Department, and which is known in Europe as the American political bible, the basis on which the Dawes and Young Principles were founded from 1914 to 1918. During the first World War Dr. Wait was engaged in secret diplomatic work.
In 1885 Dr. Wait married Emily S. Rawlins, daughter of Gen. John A. Rawlins, chief of staff to Gen. U. S. Grant, and ex-secretary of war. Mrs. Wait died Mar. 25, 1897. Mr. Wait chose in 1905, Miss Annie E. Knapp, daughter of Samuel T. Knapp of New York, for his second wife. She died on Feb. 12, 1912. In 1925 Dr. Wait was married to Miss Lillian Bull of Bull's Mills, Chester, N. Y., a daughter of Charles Ira and Mary Elizabeth Green Bull, being a descendant of William Bull and Sarah Wells, the latter being the first white woman to be married in this section of the state. Mrs. Lillian Bull Wait survives him.
Dr. Wait was a first reader of the Newburgh News and was acquainted with the late William H. Keefe, founder of The News. The funeral will be held at the home Saturday afternoon at 2 and will be conducted by the Rev. Wilbur M. Franklin, pastor of the Calvary Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.Relationships
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