120 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1933 



jump from an airplane in 1912, one of the first instances of its kind. 

 This accession provides the Museum with an example of the old 

 "bundle" type of parachute, antedating the several pack types 

 already exhibited. 



Col. Charles A. Lindbergh added to his previous gift of the Spirit 

 of St. Louis the maps and personal equipment that he carried during 

 his Pan American flight of 1927-28. Much of this material was in- 

 tended for emergency use in event of a forced landing in the jungles 

 of Central America. 



The largest single group of accessions in the section of mechanical 

 technology was in the class of material relating to land transportation. 

 The sole full-size vehicle added this year was a Columbia electric 

 buggy of about 1903-6, the gift of Mrs. Sewell M. Johnson, Wash- 

 ington, D.C. This vehicle is a well-preserved example of the light 

 electric automobile that in its day was so much more dependable 

 than the unperfected gasoline automobile that it was the choice of 

 conservative and professional people. Other automotive material 

 included the steam engine built by the Mason Regulator Co. in 1897 

 for the first Stanley steam automobile; and a Stanley steam auto- 

 mobile engine of about 1923 from L. J. Hathaway, Cherrydale, Va. 



The railroad and locomotive collection was enhanced by the 

 addition of three models of English locomotives of about 25 years 

 ago. They are the gift of Frank A. Wardlaw, Jr., Inspiration, Ariz., 

 and Frank A. Wardlaw, New York City, and include the Locomotive 

 Greyhound of the L. & N.W, Ry. Co., and the Locomotive 146 of the 

 F.C.O. Rr. (Argentine) of 1905, which were made by Mr. ¥/ardlaw, 

 Sr. ; and the Caledonian Railroad Co.'s Locomotive 903. These 

 locomotives exhibit many features foreign to American practice not 

 heretofore shown in the collections. An unusual railroad item was a 

 Japanese drawing in color of a Norris locomotive, tender, and car of 

 1853, the gift of C. P. Clausen, Washington, D.C. The Japanese 

 date of the picture indicates that it was made about 1853 and con- 

 sequently only a year or two after Commodore Perry negotiated the 

 treaty with Japan. Miss Martha Hopldns, Damariscotta, Maine, 

 presented an old single-ox yoke, a type of which not many are known 

 to exist. 



The watercraft collection received onl}^ one addition during the 

 year — a nicely executed model of the champion ice yacht Debutante 

 III, presented by John D. Buckstaff, Oshkosh, Wis., and Douglas 

 Van Dyke, Milwaukee, Wis. The original is the present holder of the 

 Stuart trophy and the world's record over a 20-mile triangular course. 



In the class of electrical material the additions to the collection of 

 incandescent lamps are of considerable interest. Frank A. Wardlaw, 

 New York City, an associate of Thomas A. Edison, presented 2 

 originals of the Edison paper horseshoe filament lamp of 1879, 2 



