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maker; screw-cutter and —- in metals ; ofeclock-making, 
watch-cases, wire-drawing, gilding, &c., are in the collection ; 
and, what is particularly interesting to an amateur in 
the arts, there are two complete assortments of turning instru- 
ments, one made by British workmen, and the other by artists. 
in Vienna. The apparatus of the brass founder, goldsmith, 
and a crowd of others. are also included. This x eee 
is not only useful in the lectures on technology, but as t 
consist chiefly of foreign instruments, spieielly English, nd 
tle known in the country, they afford to German workmen 
the most favourable opportunity of profiting by the know- 
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not yet 
fulilled the the doses of its institution. I appears ane they 
fessors and their adjuncts, occupied with their courses of in- 
struction; and with the classification of the objects of the mu- 
seum, have not yet decided, or even Aa tem any = ei : 
at least nals make no mention of hey have, 
however, been very useful as a soit of consultation, 
and have given their advice on 400 or 500 questions, which the 
government has submitted annually to their enlightened deci- 
sion. They have proposed important alterations in the law 
of patents, in the operation of which there is now much less 
abuse. Accordingly the number of patents, which had been 
only fifty-eight from 1815 to 1820, rose in 1821 to one hun- 
dred and eight, and in 1822 to one hundred and sixty-eight. 
At the expiration of their respective periods, they will be 
rendered public through the medium of the printer and en- 
graver, in the Annals of the Institute. One thing is ; worthy 
of remark, and that is, that the first a gas il 
on the continent of Europe was made in 1817, by the direction 
of the polytechnic institute. The halls of this vast establish- 
‘eit 
oe are ne saabieeamests N fay igitien hs steam, 
which is now regularly established on the Danube, aud on the 
Adriatic between Trieste and Venice, is also indebted to this 
stitution 
