36 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1963 



Noteworthy donations to the division of manufacturing and heavy 

 industries inchide a collection of more than 300 tinware items, cover- 

 ing the entire range of the 19th-century tinsmith's art, from Kenneth 

 Jewett. President John F. Kennedy, through the U.S. Atomic Energy 

 Commission, transferred a cube of uranium fuel used by Enrico Fermi 

 in the world's first controlled neutron chain reaction (December 2, 

 1 942) . Obtained from the Army Nuclear Power Program was a model 

 of the first land-based nuclear power plant (SM-1), the prototype of 

 small reactors being developed for the use of the U.S. Army in the 

 field, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory provided a display show- 

 ing the method of fabrication of the fuel elements used therein. The 

 section of iron and steel was successful in locating the original Ajax- 

 Wyatt electric induction furnace which was transferred by the Ajax 

 Magnethermic Corp. 



The division of agriculture and forest products received, from 

 Minneapolis-Moline, Inc., a 1918 Moline Universal Model D tractor 

 with a two-bottom plow attached. The tractor is notable for its use 

 of electrically operated accessories. Another historical item acquired 

 by the division is an 1869 portable steam engine, the first made by the 

 J. I. Case Co. and donated by that firm. 



Civil history. — Among the important accessions received in the divi- 

 sion of political history is Mrs. John F. Kennedy's gift of her inaugu- 

 ral-ball gown and cape, made of peau d'ange covered with several 

 layers of white silk chiffon. Mrs. Kennedy also presented her dress of 

 white ottoman silk worn at the inaugural gala on January 19, 1961. 

 Items of clothing worn by Presidents William Howard Taft, Theodore 

 Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, and Woodrow Wilson were presented by 

 Charles R. Taft, Ralph E. Becker, John Coolidge, and the National 

 Trust for Historic Preservation, respectively. A handsomely bound 

 book presented to Theodore Roosevelt by the Faculty Club of the 

 University of California, The Silva of Calif otmia, was given by his 

 grandson, Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt. A number of items, including 

 a fan, a brown satin apron, and other articles of the clothing which 

 belonged to Dolley Madison, were donated by her great-great-great- 

 grandniece. Miss Barbara Donald. Mrs. Herbert A. May donated the 

 famous Napoleon diamond necklace presented by the Emperor to his 

 wife, the Empress Marie-Louise, on the occasion of the birth of their 

 son, the King of Rome. 



To the collections of the division of cultural history were added 

 an important block-front tall clock from Rhode Island, a Philadelphia 

 "pie crust" table, and other significant items, donated by Mrs. Francis 

 P. Gar van. Mrs. Harry T. Peters and her children, Harry T. Peters, 

 Jr., and Mrs. Charles D. Webster, presented 11 large folio lithographs 

 by Currier and Ives and others, a valuable addition to the nearly 2,000 



