Albert M. Best, engineering research director for Sperry New
Holland at New Holland, Pa., is serving a one-year term as
president of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers.
Best has received over 20 patents for farm equipment. He is
listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in
Engineering. He is a graduate of Emlenton (Pa.) High School and
Penn State University.
The American Society of Agricultural Engineers is a non-profit,
technical, scientific and educational society working to improve
agriculture through engineering principles. Among its publications
are The Grain Harvesters, by Graeme Quick and Wesley Buchele; The
Agricultural Tractor 1855-1950, compiled by R. B. Gray, and Rural
America a Century Ago, edited by S. H. Rosenberg, all of which are
on sale through GEM.