Abstract :
At the conclusion of the annual business meeting of the Institute in the auditorium of the Engineering Societies Building, New York, on May 18, 1915, occurred the ceremony of presentation of the Edison Medal to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. The presentation was witnessed by a large audience of members of the Institute, telephone engineers, and ladies. One of the enjoyable features of the occasion was the music by the Blue Bell Orchestra of the New York Telephone Society.