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history of technology on a commercial basis and produced a number of studies to 

 celebrate the jubilee of various German companies. Many of these studies have been 

 listed in Isis {e.g., 4, 216-17; 26, 572; 28, 585). 



According to Laurence Vail Coleman:"" Company museums (1943), there 

 were at the time of his writing 80 company museums in the United States and Can- 

 ada, some of them, it is true, very small and not open to the public, others on the 

 contrary quite considerable. Each of those museums is important, for it helps to pre- 

 serve more accurately some technological and industrial traditions. Coleman's book 

 contains a brief description of each and all of them. It will suflBce here to enumerate 

 a few in alphabetical order of subjects: 



Abrasives. — Norton Co., Norton Hall Museum (Worcester, Mass.). 



Agricultural T77achinerij. — J. I. Case Co. Farm machinery collection (Racine, 

 Wise). 



Aluminum. — Aluminum Co. of America. Aluminum Museum ( 230 Park Ave., 

 New York). 



Arithmetical machines. — Felt & Tarrant Mfg. Co. ( 1735 N. Paulina St., Chicago, 

 111.). 



Asbestos. — Asbestos Ltd. (8 W. 40 St., New York). 



Automobiles. — Ford Motor Co. Ford Rotunda (Dearborn, Mich.). 



Studebaker Museum (South Bend, Ind. ). 



General Motors Corporation. Parade of progress (traveling exhibits, headquar- 

 ters, 1775 Broadway, New York). 



Chemistry. — Rumford Chemical Works. Rumford Museum (Rumford, R. I.). 



Fisher Scientific Co., Fisher Collection of alchemical and historical pictures (711 

 Forbes St., Pittsburgh, Pa.). 



Electricity. — The Old Edison Laboratory (West Orange, N. Y. ), estabhshed 

 soon after the death of Thomas Alva Edison in 1931. This is the most important 

 museum of its kind in America. 



General Electric Co. Research Laboratory Exhibits (Schenectady, N. Y. ). 



Explosives. — E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Du Pont Museum (Wilmington, 

 Del.). 



Firearms. — Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co. Colt Museum ( Hart- 

 ford, Conn.). 



Charles T. Haven and Frank A. Belden: History of the Colt revolver and 

 other arms (711 p., ill., 1940). 



Fire engines. — The Home Insurance Co., The H. V. Smith Museum (59 Maiden 

 Lane, New York, N. Y. ). Insurance Co. of North America (1600 Arch St., Phila- 

 delphia). 



Forestry. — See Logging equipment. 



Fur trade. — Hudson's Bay Co. (Winnipeg, Manitoba). 



Gla3s. — United States Glass Co. (Tiffin, Ohio). Libbey Glass Co. (Foot of Ash 

 St., Toledo, Ohio). 



Gyroscopes. — Sperry Gyroscope Co. ( Manhattan Bridge Plaza, Brooklyn, N. Y. ) . 



Logging equipment. — Wisconsin Land & Lumber Co. Paul Bunyan Museum 

 (Blaney Park, Blaney, Mich.). 



Meteorological instruments. — Taylor Instrvmient Co. (Rochester, N. Y. ). The 

 News Syndicate Co. The News Lobby Exhibit (220 E. 42nd St., New York). 



Mining. — See Rock drilling. 



Paper. — Crane & Co., Crane Museum (Dalton, Mass.). Hammermill Paper Co. 

 (Erie, Pa.). 



Pharmacy. — Burroughs Wellcome & Co., Wellcome exhibition galleries (11 E. 41 

 St. New York). These galleries were discontinued about 1946. 



Two catalogues of special exhibitions were pubhshed. The romance of ex- 

 ploration and emergency first-aid from Stanley to Byrd ( 160 p., ill, Chicago, Cen- 



noWe owe to Coleman a whole series of important reference books on American museums: 

 Manual for small Museums (New York, Putnam 1927). Directory of Museums in South America 

 (1929). Historic House Museums (1933). The Museums in America (3 vols. 1939). College 

 and University Museums (1942). Company Museums (1943). All these books, except the first, 

 published by the American Association of Museums, Washington, D. C. 



