The Naval Consulting Board, about 1916. Thomas Edison is front row center; Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels is to his right. At far right, first row (and looking up the stairs) is Assistant Secretary of the Navy (and future President) Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Source: Image: LC-DIG-hec-06949, Harris & Ewing collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.