PAL? Gm DT: 
MANUFACTURE OF PINS. 
We have seen with great satisfaction the beautiful machine for 
the manufacture of pins invented by Dr. Howe. 
lis operation is so like that produced by intelligence directed in 
the immediate movements by a specific purpose, and furnished with 
the organs (so to speak) adapted to fulfil its designs, that it per- 
fectly imitates the human fingers, obeying the impulse of the mind. 
The production of a perfect pin headed and pointed by one sys- 
tem of movements, is equally surprising and gratifying. The man- 
ufacture although of a small article, is also of national importance, 
and we therefore admit the reasonable statements of Dr. Howe, as 
an Appendix to this Number,—trusting that the publication may 
hot be without effect upon the minds of those who form our com- 
mercial regulations, and determine the success or failure of our do- 
mestic manufactures.—Editors. 
To tue Eprrors or tHE American Journat or Scrence, &c. 
Gentlemen—Agreeably to your suggestion, I take leave to com- 
municate to you a few of the facts and circumstances connected with 
the attempt, in which I am engaged, to introduce the manufacture of 
Pins, i in our country, by the use of labor-saving machinery. 
are aware that in the manufacture of pins, in Europe, man- 
Sa. for the most part, of the cheapest kind is employed; and, 
Consequently, that any attempt to manufacture them, in this country, 
a similar method, must inevitably fail, on account of the compar- 
ary high price of labor here,—unless protected by a high import 
Ora prohibition of the importation of the article. During the 
# ee var of ce when the supply from abroad was in a great measure 
off, pins were sold in this country at greatly enhanced prices. 
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