130 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1914. 
The Universal Winding Co., of Boston, Mass., placed in the 
Museum as a loan their original gyroscope machine, which has served 
as the basis for many other patents. By the system of winding 
developed by this appliance the thread or yarn is laid on a support- 
ing cylindrical or conical center in regular helical coils which reverse 
with a sharp bend, each coil crossing over the preceding one, binding 
it in place at each crossing. The coils form a compact self-support- 
ing package and when unwound deliver the yarn without twisting or 
tension. The same company also contributed a series of specimens 
illustrating the various kinds of work done by their machines, includ- 
ing the winding of such materials as raw, spun, and artificial silk, 
fine and coarse, plain and mercerized cotton yarns, glazed twine, shoe 
thread, binder twine, jute and cotton cords, asbestos yarn, tape, sisal 
rope, japanned wire, etc. These materials are wound in packages 
of various sizes and shapes and on tubes, cones, quills, bobbins, 
cops, etc. 
For samples of white and colored fancy cotton and cotton and 
artificial silk dress goods, including matelassé, piques, ratines, and 
other seasonable wash goods, the division is indebted to Lesher, 
Whitman & Co., of New York; for 85 samples of plain and fancy 
cotton wash dress goods, stock or yarn dyed, and woven in plain, 
checked, plaid, and striped effects, to the Parkhill Manufacturing 
Co., of Fitchburg, Mass.; for specimens of old English hand-printed 
chintzes, fabrics, and designs which are being revived and are now 
in favor for interior decoration and upholstery, to Witcombe, Mc- 
Geachin & Co., of New York; for examples of crinkled seersucker, 
Jap crépe, Devonshire cloth, and zephyr madras woven from plain 
and erépe cotton yarns, and of satin-finished cotton table damask, to 
the Renfrew Manufacturing Co., of Adams, Mass.; for specimens of 
fancy printed velveteens, used for millinery trimmings and for 
vestees, including examples of pigment printing in gold and silver 
effects, to Messrs. Henry Kupfer & Co., of New York; for samples of 
cotton and silk dress goods and linings, including cotton fabrics 
finished to imitate those made of silk and of wool, to Messrs. A. G. 
Hyde & Sons, of New York; for samples of imported and domestic 
cotton dress goods woven from novelty and ratine yarns, which meet 
the demands of the season for rough-surfaced fabrics, to Wood- 
ward & Lothrop, of Washington. 
Messrs. William Liddell & Co., of New York, contributed speci- 
mens of fine grass-bleached Irish linen, unbleached damask table- 
cloth linen, fine linen damask tablecloths made in Belfast, and also 
a series of flax products from the seed to the finished fabric. 
_ The donations of ribbons included warp-printed and satin-brocaded 
ribbons, comprising some of the very finest material of this character 
produced in the United States, from Messrs. Smith & Kaufmann, of 
