1806.] 



Plan of a Mujeum for Scientific Inquiry. 



not be adequately explained or demon- 

 strated without fucli exhibitions. 



No de'cription is adequate to convey 

 complete ideas of many of the inltru- 

 inents, proceifcs, and productions of art. 

 A repoiitory of fuch machinery and pro- 

 ducts for exhibition is tlierefore requiilte 

 in this Inftitution. 



A mufeum, every article of which is 

 placed according to the moli: approved 

 method of fcientific arrangement, will 

 conftantly lertine to the eye, will make 

 indelible imprctlions on the memory, will 

 attbrd the readieft aid to the unlearned, 

 will fuggeft new afibciatious to the moft 

 experienced. 



Such a colleftion need not contain 

 every minute variety ; it may fuffice to 

 the purpoies of initiation, to the excite- 

 ment of inquiry, to exliibit the molt re- 

 markable objects of art, and fpecimens 

 illullrative of the clafles, orders, genera, 

 and of the moll lingular fpecies of natu- 

 ral objects. * 



The conneSing points of diftercnt 

 claffes of natural objects fliould be dif- 

 tiuctly exhibited ; and remarkable ano- 

 malies ihould be found near tliofe objects 

 to which they bear the clofelt relation. 



I Huill fuppofe a feparate portion of 

 the mufeum to be wholly confecrated to 

 arts and experimental fciences. 



iVIodfls illuftrating the tirft principles 

 of mechanics might be fuccceded by 

 otb.ers reprefenting the moll important 

 machines in which tliefe principles are 

 apphed. ISiext to machines which aug- 

 Jnent and multiply powers, might be ex- 

 hibited fpecimens of architecture, civil, 

 militaiy, and maritime, antl agricultural 

 machinery. With initruments which mul- 

 tiply and accelerate motion, certain pro- 

 ducts of manufactures. Machines for 

 pui-pofes of menfuraiion may be thofe 

 ufed in geometrical operation, nautical 

 obfcrvation, microfcopicul notation, &c. 



Near to eacii clafs of objects fliould be 

 placed one or two tablets defcribing the 

 arrangement of tlie objects, and referring 

 to books at hand concifely explaining the 

 peculiar properties of each. e. g. 



TATII,]-, I. MECHANICS. 



1. Atwood's machine, exliibits the 

 time in which bodies fall through ditterent 

 portions of fpace. The pendulum nidrks 

 tlie time, the graduated fcale the diftance. 



2. ].eavers of diliercnt kinds, 



3. PuUies. 



4. Inclined plane. 



5. Screws, &c. Geometrical machi- 

 nery. 



The ordinary machinery ufed in lec- 

 turc| Kill principles of mechanics. 



TABLE II. MACHINES FOR INCREASING 

 POWER. 



1. Crane. Screw-jack, &c. 



2. Do. 



0. Steam-engine. 



TABLE III. MACHINES FOR MULTIPLYING 

 AND REGULATING MOTION. 



1. Mill-work. 



2. Watch-work. Pendulums. 



3. Spinning-jennies. 



4. Arkwriii;ht's niaciiinery. 



See Adams's or Jones's Catalogues. 



ARCHITECTURE, CIVIL. 

 TABLE I. 



1. Conftruftion of roofs. 



2. Arches. 



8. Scatfolding. 



Ornamental parts may be referred to a 

 faloon of talte, exhibiting models, inftru- 

 ments, and I'pecimens of architecture, 

 fculpture, and painting, 



ARCHITECTURE, MILITARY. 

 TABLE tl. 



1. Model of fortifications. 



2. Ditto in parts. A baftion, a rave- 

 lin, ixc. 



3. Military inftruments, &c. 



ARCHITECTURE, NAVAL. 

 TABLE III, 



1. Model of a fliip. Seftions. 



2. 3. Different parts. Malls, rigging, 

 &c. 



HYDROSTATICS. 



1. Hydrometer, to explain the fpecific 

 gravity of dilferent fluids. 



2. Syphons. 



3. Diving-bell. Pumps, Engines, &c. 



PNEUMATICS. 



1. Air-pump. 



2. Steam-engine. ■ 



3. Barometers, &c. 



4. Air-gun. 



Here may foUovv iiluflrations by machi- 

 nery of 



ACOUSTICS. 



1. Speaking-trumpet. 



2. Invilible g:rl. 



3. Monochoid, &c. 

 Apparatus illullrative of 



OPTICS 



might adjoin that principally belonging 

 to 



ASTRONOMY, 



in an upper apartment fitted up as an ob- 

 fen'atory. 



MAGNETISM. 



The fmall portion of apparatus necop. 

 fary for this fubjett, together with the 

 much more extenlive machinery required 

 for tlie illultratiou of the phenomena of 



EI ECTRICITY AND GALVAM-M 



may probably be in the neignbourhood of 

 pneumatics. 



A 2 CHEMISTRY, 



