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plication of scientific discoveries to the improvement 

 of arts and manufactures in this country, and to the 

 increase of domestic comfort and convenience." Efforts 

 were to be made to confine the Institution to its proper 

 limits, to give it a solid foundation, and to make it an 

 ornament to the capital and an honor to the nation. 

 Spacious and airy rooms were to be provided for re- 

 ceiving and exhibiting such new mechanical inventions 

 and improvements, especially such contrivances for 

 increasing conveniences and comforts, for promoting 

 domestic economy, for improving taste, and for ad- 

 vancing useful industry, as should be thought worthy 

 of public notice. 



Perfect and full-sized models of all such mechanical 

 inventions and improvements as would serve these 

 ends* were to be provided and placed in a repository. 

 The following are the specifications: Cottage fireplaces 

 and kitchen utensils for cottagers ; a farm-house 

 kitchen, with its furnishings ; a complete kitchen, 

 with utensils, for the house of a gentleman of fortune ; 

 a laundry, including boilers, washing, ironing, and 

 drying rooms, for a gentleman's house, or for a public 

 hospital ; the most approved German, Swedish, and 

 Russian stoves for heating rooms and passages. In 

 order that visitors might receive the utmost practical 

 benefit from seeing these models, the peculiar merit in 

 each of them should, as far as was possible, be exhibited 

 in action. Open chimney fireplaces, with ornamental and 

 economical grates, and ornamental stoves, made to rep- 

 resent elegant chimney-pieces, for halls and for drawing 

 and eating rooms-, were to be exhibited, with fires in 

 them. It was proposed, likewise, to exhibit " working 

 models, on a reduced scale, of that most curious and 



