Education

• St. John's Military Academy
• St. Paul’s School of Concord, New Hampshire
• Yale University
• Harvard University

Affiliations

• American Academy of Science
• American Association for the Advancement
  of Science
• American Chemical Society
• American Electrochemical Society
• American Museum of Natural History
• American Physical Society
• Auburn Trust Company
• General Banknote Engineering Corporation New York
• Case Memorial Library (Seymour Library)
• Cayuga Museum of History and Art
• New York Electrical Society
• Optical Society of America
• Royal Society of Arts, London, England
• St. James Church (New York City)
• St. Peter’s Episcopal Church (Auburn, New York)

Clubs

• Cayuga County Sportsmen’s Association
• Finger Lakes Automobile Association
• Metropolitan Club (New York City)
• Owasco Country Club (Auburn, New York)
• River Club (New York City)
• Skaneateles Country Club (Skaneateles, New York)
• Yale Club (New York City)
• Yacht Club (Owasco Yacht Club) (Auburn, New York)

Accomplishments:

• Photo-electric Cell
• Thalofide Cell
• Anti-submarine system for Allies in WWI
• AEO light
• Synchronized sound track
• Phonofilms
• Thermophone
• Camera attachment for open-air recording
• Film editing
• Fox-Case Corporation
• Movietone Newsreel system
• Fox-Movietone News
• Means to reduce background noise on film
• First talking movie of an American president
• First newsreel filmed outside the studio (“interest short”)
• Film of Charles Lindbergh’s takeoff on May 20, 1927
• First Western movie filmed on location
• Healing tools using high frequency sound waves
• Vice-President of Pan American Trade Committee

Honors

• George Washington University
• St. John’s Military Academy
• U.S. Navy
• The Smithsonian Institution
• Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1946)
• Academy Awards (showed experimental film) (1992)
• The National Film Registry ("Gus Visser and His Singing Duck") (2002)
• The Case Research Lab Museum opened in Auburn, New York in 1994
• Founder’s Day Honoree, Auburn, New York (2010)