IMITATION OF OUR INSTRUMENTS. 



NOTICE. 



It has always been our aim to place before the 

 Engineering: profession, through the pages of this 

 Handbook and Catalogue, a detailed description and 

 illustration of the latest styles and the more impor- 

 tant improvements made in our instruments from 

 time to time. Our object in doing this is- 



First, to acquaint our customers with the progress 

 made in the manufacture of different kinds of instru- 

 ments, so that, in ordering from a distance, they may 

 be able to select the style of instrument best adapted 

 to their special wants: 



Second, to establish our claim to these improve- 

 ments as our own, and by giving them a wide pub- 

 licity, to prevent unscrupulous makers from adopting 

 them, as we do not deem it necessary to cover all of 

 them by letters patent. We are glad to say that our 

 confidence in the integrity of reputable makers has 

 been fully justified. Nevertheless it is a fact which 

 should be mentioned, that some makers are always 

 on the qul vive to adopt new features in instruments 

 without giving the inventor any credit for them. So 

 close is the resemblance of some of these imitations, 

 that it would seem as though their manufacturers 

 had simply made moulds in sand of the various parts, 

 to procure patterns for duplication. 



C. L. BERGER & SONS. 



