26 REPORT OF NATIONAL. MUSEUM, 1911. 



Technology. — A gasoline automobile presented by the inventor, 

 Mr. Elwood Haynes, of Kokorao, Indiana, by whom it was built in 

 1893-94, constituted one of the most interesting accessions of the 

 year. On a trial trip made July 4, 1894, being then equipped with 

 a one-horsepower motor and carrying two persons, this machine ran 

 about 5 miles at a rate of 6 to 7 miles an hour ; but with the substitu- 

 tion of a two-horsepower motor and other modifications, its speed 

 was increased to 12 miles an hour. An important donation -of guns, 

 pistols, and swords from Mrs. James William Reilly, of Washington, 

 includes a Hall breech-loading rifle of 1837, a Merrill breech-loading 

 rifle with Harpers Ferry lock of 1848, a Robbins and Lawrence rifle 

 made at Windsor, Vermont, in 1850, a Gibbs breech-loading carbine 

 of 1856, a Joslyn breech-loading carbine of 1861, a Springfield breech- 

 loading carbine, model of 1873, two flintlock pistols, a pair of very 

 fine percussion-cap pistols bearing English proof marks and in- 

 scribed " John Mullin, New York," and a military sword of the 

 period of the War of 1812. Mrs. Reilly also presented an antique 

 thumb ring, said to have been made in Poland several generations 

 ago, and a rare, finely finished and embellished English verge watch 

 marked " John Cooper, Swanzey." An Edison chemical meter, the 

 gift of the Easton Gas and Electric Company, Easton, Pa., is a type 

 of instrument that was generally employed for measuring electric 

 light currents before the introduction of electro-mechanical meters, 

 which came into use about 1880. A model of a polar sundial with 

 perpendicular gnomon, devised and made by the donor, Mr. Claude L. 

 Woolley, of Baltimore, is an important addition to the series of 

 sundials already contributed by Mr. Woolley. Seven examples of 

 Springfield, Hotchkiss, and Lee military rifles, types of the arms 

 used in the United States Navy from 1870 to 1905, were deposited 

 by the Navy Department. 



Among other gifts were specimens of materials and pieces of 

 apparatus used by Thomas A. Edison in his early experiments with 

 the electric light, from Mrs. George F. Barker, of Philadelphia, Penn- 

 sylvania; a French fencing foil and a light, pliable Toledo blade 

 made to show the extreme flexibility of the steel manufactured at 

 the famous Toledo factories, from Mrs. A. L. Barber, of Washington ; 

 a rare foreign horse-pistol, with quill percussion lock, from Mr. 

 Jacob Steiner, of Brooklyn, New York; a Chinese sundial, with 

 string gnomon, from Dr. C. H. Barlow, of Huchow, China; six 

 sections of typical modern rails, manufactured by the Maryland 

 Steel Company for use on steam railroads, from Mr. G. P. Raida- 

 baugh, of Sparrow Point, Maryland; the original British patent, 

 No. 725, granted to Edward Maynard for improvements in breech- 

 loading firearms, March 22, 1859, to which is attached the official 

 seal used at that time and weighing 25^ ounces, from Mr. George 



