24 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1907. 



Trevethick's locomotive of 1804, Stephenson's locomotive of 1829, 

 Pixii's mafrneto mtichine of 1832. Thomas Blanchard's turning lathe 

 of 1843, and the irraiii-harvestinir machines i)atented by James Boyce 

 in 1799 and by AVilliam Maniiiiig in 1831. There is also a series of 

 primitive looms of E<r\ptian. Koman. and East Indian types, and a 

 Navajo Indian loom. The spinnin<r industry is illustrated by early 

 East Indian and English spinning Avheels. Arkwright's machine of 

 17G9, Thomas Hargraves' spinning jenny of 1770. William Pea- 

 body's Avheel of 1812, Peter Paddleford's machine of 181G, and Moses 

 Day's machine of 1836. A number of pieces of aj^paratus devised 

 and used by Emile Berliner, of Washington, between 1807 and 1879, 

 illustrating important steps in the development of his inventions 

 relative to the l)attery telephone transmitter, were deposited by the 

 American Bell Telephone Company. The Santos-Dumont airship 

 No. 9, was presented to the Museum by j\lr. Edward C. Boyce, of 

 New York. 



For exhibition in the division of ceramics. Miss E. R. Scidmore, 

 of Washington, has lent a fine collection of pottery, gathered during 

 her visits to Japan. It consists of 90 pieces, including examples of 

 Seto, Satsuma. Takatori. Ninsei. Bizen, Kioto, Iga. Tokonamo, 

 Owari. Oribe, Raku, Karatzu, Kiomidzu, Awata, and some Korean 

 ware and ivory white porcelain. For several years past, through the 

 initiative of Mr. Frank R. Ilaynes, chairman of the Art and Design 

 Committee of the American Potters' Association, a number of Ameri- 

 can potters have been contributing samples of their best work to the 

 national collection. The gifts from this source during the past year 

 were as follows: An art vase from the Pope-Gosser China Company, 

 of Coshocton, Ohio; examples of Xipur and metalline ware from the 

 Cook Pottery Company, of Trenton, New Jersey; two specimens of 

 crj'stal patina ware from the Clifton Art Pottery, of Newark. New 

 Jersey; a specimen of overglaze pottery from Mr. S. A. Welk'i-. of 

 Zanesville. Ohio, and five historical lilates of blue AVedwwood ware 



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from the Jones, McDuffee & Stratton Company, of Boston. Massachu- 

 setts. The Fostoria Glass Company, of Moundsville, West Virginia, 

 presented 21 specimens of etched glass. From the Pennsylvania 

 Museum and School of Industrial Art, at Philadelphia, there were 

 obtained by exchange 5 pieces of porcelain made about 1825 by Wil- 

 liam Tucker, of Philadelphia, whose factory suspended in 1838, and 

 a small octagonal earthen dish witli slip decoration made by Pennsyl- 

 vania German potters about 1830. The former ware was the first 

 hard-paste porcelain ])ioduced in the United States and is now very 

 rare. Mr. B. P, Richardson, of New York City, donated a specimen 

 of Rouen ware, and Mr. Harold I. Sewall, of Bar Harbor, Maine, 

 deposited a pair of blue and white jars of Chinese porcelain, pur- 

 chased at the recent Heber R. Bishop sale. 



