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Technology were discussed March 25-28 by Mr. Woodbury with 

 Joseph W. Roe at Southport, Conn., and individuals acquainted with 

 the Towne Foundation which sponsored the Museum of Peaceful 

 Arts in New York City. Tentative negotiations were made by Cura- 

 tor Woodbury April 22-27, 1957, to obtain documentary data and ex- 

 amples of early grinding and milling machines from the Abrasive 

 Machine Tool Co., Providence ; the Norton Co., Worcester ; the Fellows 

 Gear Shaper, Springfield; Lamson and Goodnow, Shelburne Falls; 

 the Hartford Machine Screw Co.; and the Cryder Plumbing Co., 

 Newark. 



Edwin A. Battison, associate curator of light machinery, was en- 

 gaged from November 11 to 21, 1956, in the examination and study 

 of historical horological and business-machine collections in West 

 Chester, Pa., Clifton, N. J., New York City, South Kent, Waterbury, 

 East Hartford, and New London, Conn., and Monson, Crafton, 

 Milton, Waltham, Auburndale, and Boston, Mass. The period from 

 February 19 to 22, 1957, was utilized by Mr. Battison to examine and 

 study the clock, watch, lock, and calculating-machine exhibits and 

 collections located in the offices of manufacturing firms, individuals, 

 and institutions in New London and New Haven, Conn. Mr. Bat- 

 tison visited a number of dealers in New York City in search of old 

 and unusual clocks and watches for the exhibit series on May 2, 1957, 

 and examined many early European watches belonging to the Metro- 

 politan Museum of Art. 



Potential donations from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 and Harvard University of electrical equipment were discussed with 

 responsible officials, November 7-10, 1956, by W. James King, asso- 

 ciate curator of electricity. He visited the Franklin Institute, Phila- 

 delphia, December 11-12, 1956, to examine the technique employed in 

 the display of electrical equipment and studied display techniques 

 utilized for communication apparatus in the Museum of the Signal 

 Corps, U. S. Army, at Fort Monmouth, N. J. He also inspected the 

 technical relics of Edison exhibited in the Edison Laboratory National 

 Monument, West Orange, N. J., as well as displays in the museums of 

 New York City, December 26-31, 1956. He held discussions with in- 

 dividuals familiar with the early history of radio and other electrical 

 devices, February 10-15, 1957, at Norwalk and Stamford, Conn., and at 

 Troy and Schenectady, N. Y. At the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 

 Troy, he reviewed several pieces of laboratory equipment for possible 

 presentation. Consideration was given by the General Electric Re- 

 search Laboratory, Schenectady, to the transfer of certain outmoded 

 pieces of equipment for the display series. Further consultations 

 with the staffs of the departments of mechanical and electrical en- 

 gineering of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on April 17-18, 



