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( Rocket,' also forms a part of this collection. A cylinder and 

 other portions of the locomotive ' Stourbridge Lion,' the first 

 locomotive built for traffic on the Western Continent, was 

 obtained several years ago through the cooperation of 

 Horatio Allen, who, in August, 1829, first ran this locomotive 

 near Honesdale, Pennsylvania. The series showing the de- 

 velopment of permanent way in America is unique, as are the 

 two collections of models showing the development of wheel 

 vehicles and machinery of the steamboats invented by Rumsey, 

 Fitch, Fulton, and Ericsson. 



" The Ramsden dividing engine, used in the last century to 

 divide equally the circles of quadrants and other mathematical 

 instruments, which is the earliest machine of this kind extant, 

 also forms a part of the collection of apparatus. A very im- 

 portant and valuable recent addition to this section is the 

 seismological apparatus displayed at the World's Columbian 

 Exposition in the Japanese exhibit, and since presented to 

 the museum by that government. 



"The electrical collections contain objects of extreme im- 

 portance and value. Among these may be mentioned one of 

 the first three large horseshoe electric magnets, wound and 

 experimented with by Henry, together with the battery, first 

 motor, and other similar appliances constructed by Henry 

 while in Princeton ; and the original telegraph apparatus in- 

 vented by Professor Morse. The original telegraph instru- 

 ment from which was received the historic message, ' What 

 hath God wrought,' in Baltimore, 1844, also forms part of this 

 collection, together with objects illustrating the beginnings 

 and development of the storage battery and electric incandes- 

 cent and arc lamps, and other electrical apparatus. 



" The telephone which Johann Philipp Reis, of Frankfort, 

 invented in 1860, is another object of much interest and 

 value." 



The collection of Materia Medica is probably the most 

 complete and most carefully labeled collection of its kind ex- 

 hibited in any museum. It is very full in many directions, 



