REPORTS 



OF THE POLYTECHNIC ASSOCIATION AND FARMERS' CLUB 



POLYTECHNIC ASSOCIATION. 



The Secretary of the Mechanical Section reports: 

 That several of the special committees appointed to examine 

 improvements in mechanism and manufactures referred to them, 

 have carefully inspected the articles presented, and offer the 

 following opinion upon their respective merits. 



REVOLVING POCKET PISTOL. 



This pistol, invented hy Dr. Elliot, is intended for the civilian 

 rather than the soldier, is a simple yet ingenious arrangement 

 consisting of but few parts. Its principal feature is the great 

 proportionate length of the barrels as compared with that of the 

 pistol. The inventor is entitled, in the opinion of the examiners, 

 to a bronze medal. 



HEATING HOUSES, 



The hot air furnace of A. H. Bartlett, known as Bartlett & 

 Lesley's new Gothic Furnace. 



The examiners are aware that a gold medal is offered for the 

 best mode of heating houses. The hot air furnace, together with 

 two other apparatus hereinafter to be described, present three 

 different modes of heating, each having peculiar advantages. 

 Although there are several varieties of each, these three modes, 

 Lave this in common, that each uses only one of the three. Thus, of 

 each different mode no more than one form has been presented, so 

 that there is in reality no fair competition as to the best hot air 

 furnace; the best hot water air warmer; and the best steam heat- 

 ing apparatus. As each of these modes is old in all its essential 

 features, your examiners believing that no one of the articles 

 presented can be pronounced the best, under all circumstances 



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