24 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1907. 



Trevethick's locomotive of 1804, Stephenson's locomotive of 1829, 

 Pixii's magneto machine of 1832, Thomas Blanchard's turning lathe 

 of 1843, and the grain-harvesting machines patented by James Boyce 

 in 1799 and by William Manning in 1831. There is also a series of 

 primitive looms of Egyptian, Roman, and East Indian types, and a 

 Navajo Indian loom. The spinning industry is illustrated by early 

 East Indian and English spinning wheels, Arkwright's machine of 

 1769, Thomas Hargraves' spinning jenny of 1770, William Pea- 

 body's wheel of 1812, Peter Paddleford's machine of 1816, and Moses 

 Day's machine of 1836. A number of pieces of apparatus devised 

 and used by Emile Berliner, of Washington, between lsc>7 and 1879, 

 illustrating important steps in the development of his inventions 

 relative to the battery telephone transmitter, were deposited by the 

 American Bell Telephone Company. The Santos-Dumont airship 

 No. 9, was presented to the Museum by Mr. Edward C. Boyce, of 

 New York. 



For exhibition in the division of ceramics. Miss E. R. Seidmore, 

 of Washington, has lent a fine collection of pottery, gathered during 

 her visits to Japan. It consists of 90 pieces, including examples of 

 Seto. Satsuma, Takatori, Ninsei, Bizen, Kioto. Iga, Tokonamo, 

 Owari, Oribe, Raku, Karatzu, Kiomidzu, Awata, and some Korean 

 ware and ivory white porcelain. For several years past, through the 

 initiative of Mr. Frank R. Haynes, chairman of the Art and Design 

 Committee of the American Potters' Association, a number of Ameri- 

 can potters have been contributing samples of their best work to the 

 national collection. The gifts from this source during the past year 

 were as follows: An art vase from tin 1 Pope-Gosser China Company, 

 of Coshocton. Ohio; examples of Nipur and metalline ware from the 

 Cook Pottery Company, of Trenton, New Jersey; two specimens of 

 crystal patina ware from the Clifton Art Pottery, of Newark, New 

 Jersey; a specimen of overglaze pottery from Mr. S. A. Weller, of 

 Zanesville, Ohio, and live historical plates of blue Wedgewood ware 

 from the Jones. McDuffee £ Stratton Company, of Boston. Massachu- 

 setts. The Fostoria Glass Company, of Moundsville, West Virginia. 

 presented v 2l specimens of etched glass. From the Pennsylvania 

 Museum and School of Industrial Art. at Philadelphia, there were 

 obtained by exchange 5 pieces of porcelain made about L825 by AVil- 

 liam Tucker, of Philadelphia, whose factory suspended in 1838, and 

 a small octagonal earthen dish with slip decoration made by Pennsyl- 

 vania German potters about 1830. The former ware was the first 

 hard-paste porcelain produced in the United States and is now very 

 rare. Mr. B. P. Richardson, of New York City, donated a specimen 

 of Rouen ware, ami Mr. Harold I. Sewall, of Bar Harbor, Maine, 

 deposited a pair of blue and white jars of Chinese porcelain, pur- 

 chased at the recent Ileber R. Bishop sale. 



