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Wally Schirra’s bronze-tone Edward F. Weston Distinguished Alumnus Award medal, 76 mm, 167 gm, with the front featuring an embossed portrait of Weston with raised text, “Edward F. Weston Distinguished Alumnus Award,” and the reverse presentation text below the emblem for the Newark College of Engineering, which reads: “Awarded to Walter M. Schirra, Jr., by The Board of Trustees of Newark College of Engineering, October 15, 1962,” which dates to 12 days after Schirra completed the Mercury-Atlas 8 mission when he orbited the Earth six times inside his Sigma 7 spacecraft. The edge is stamped “Medallic Art Co. N.Y.” Includes its original case.
Founded in New Jersey by Edward Weston in 1888, the Weston Electrical Instrument Corporation’s innovations included the Weston standard cell, the first accurate portable voltmeters and ammeters, the first portable lightmeter, and many other electrical developments. Weston was an early contributor to the founding of the Newark Technical School, which eventually became NJIT. Weston Hall at NJIT is named for him and his son, Edward Faraday Weston (1878–1971), who was a trustee of the school at that time, which was then known as the Newark College of Engineering. The younger Weston applied for the patents on the original Weston exposure meter in 1935. Before film speed ratings were standardized, he developed their own scales and published them in pamphlets called ‘Weston Ratings.’
