REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 



Repo7't of the Committee on Manufactures^ Science a7id Arts, on Mille7'''s 

 Safety Steam Boiler Alarm.. 



Tlic committee on Manufactures, Science and Arts, to whom was referred 

 " Miller's Safety Steam Boiler Alarm," having examined the apparatus 

 presented by the iaventor, and heard his explanations in relation to the 

 same, beg leave to 



REPORT: 



That, in the opinion of the committee, the arrangements of its parts and 

 manner of applying it to steam boilers for the purpose of giving notice to 

 the attendants of a deficiency of water, when that condition of things 

 occurs, is well adapted to accomplish the intended purpose ; and that its 

 application to steam boilers used in mills and manufactories, will tend much 

 to prevent the danger which results from such deficiency. 



The apparatus is simple in its construction and mode of operation, and 

 will, probably, prove durable and eff'ective. 



Respectfully submitted, 



JOHN D. WARD, 

 JOSEPH DIXON, 

 T. B. STILLMAN, 



Comviittee. 

 New York, October 20th, 1858. 



Report of a Select Committee appoi?ited to examine the Paying Out 

 Machinery on board of the United States Stea?}i Frigate Niagara, 

 used in laying the Atlantic Telegrajjh cable, and to furnish a report 

 thereon concerning the design and construction thereof. 



The committee appointed under a resolution of the Institute of the 2d 

 September last, in reference to the paying out machinery used to lay the 

 Atlantic cable from the steamers Niagara and Agamemnon, understand 

 that the object of their appointment was to hear and ascertain from authen- 

 tic sources the part which Mr. Wm. E. Everett, an American engineer, has 

 performed in connection with so interesting an event as the successful lay- 

 ing of a telegraph cable between the two continents. 



The American Institute may well be excused for desiring to have placed 

 on record the fact, if such has been the case, that to the mechanical 



