Original merit badges
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#Electrician | #Electrician | ||
#Fireman | #Fireman | ||
#Gardener | #Gardener | ||
#Horseman | #Horseman | ||
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#Master-of-Arms | #Master-of-Arms | ||
#Musician | #Musician | ||
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#Stalker | #Stalker | ||
Revision as of 10:49, December 5, 2010
In 1910, the Boy Scouts of America announced 14 "Badges of Merit" in the temporary "Original edition" of the BSA Handbook:
- Ambulance
- Clerk
- Cyclist
- Electrician
- Fireman
- Gardener
- Horseman
- Marksman
- Master-of-Arms
- Musician
- Pioneer
- Seaman
- Signaller
- Stalker
In 1911, Master-of-Arms was dropped, 13 were retained (some with changed names), 44 new ones were added, and all became know as "Merit Badges".
This is a list of the original 57 Merit Badges issued by the Boy Scouts of America in 1911, with the surviving 1910 "Badges of Merit" in bold:
- Agriculture
- Angling
- Archery
- Architecture
- Art
- Astronomy
- Athletics
- Automobiling
- Aviation
- Beefarming
- Blacksmithing
- Bugling
- Clerk -> Business
- Camping
- Carpentry
- Chemistry
- Civics
- Conservation
- Cooking
- Craftsmanship
- Cycling
- Dairying
- Electrician -> Electricity
- Fireman -> Firemanship
- Ambulance -> First Aid
- First Aid to Animals
- Forestry
- Gardener -> Gardening
- Handicraft
- Horseman ->Horsemanship
- Interpreting
- Invention
- Leatherworking
- Lifesaving
- Machinery
- Marksmanship
- Masonry
- Mining
- Musician ->Music
- Ornithology
- Painting
- Pathfinding
- Personal Health
- Photography
- Pioneering
- Plumbing
- Poultry Farming
- Printing
- Public Health
- Scholarship
- Sculpture
- Seamanship
- Signaling
- Stalker -> Stalking
- Surveying
- Swimming
- Taxidermy
