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cutter for example, he has but to deposit his improved model, and its 

 comparative excellence is at once seen and known of all, and his 

 card attached, shows where it can be obtained. 



Should an Inventor produce some new, or newly contrived article 

 of utility, wishing to effect its most ready and general introduction 

 into market and use, he at once deposits his models and descriptions, 

 and his invention is before the public eye. 



The obscure but meritorious Artist, Tradesman, or Artisan, 

 whose skill has executed, or whose genius devised some work of rare 

 merit, and who, friendless and alone, is without the means or the in- 

 fluence, necessary to bring out his production properly to view, has 

 here a new field open to him, and a free passport is here offered him 

 to the favor and patronage of a discerning public. 



In short, whoever desires to call public attention to any invention, 

 design, improvement or production whatever, will here deposit his 

 models, samples and descriptions, not only that their merits may be 

 seen, but seen and compared with all others of a kindred character. 



Again. It will be an Ordeal, in which to " try every man's work 

 of whatsoever sort it is;" directly and powerfully tending to reward 

 real merit, by showing forth its superior claims to public patronage 

 and favor. 



Here would many of our citizens, who purchase articles of foreign 

 manufacture, learn for the first time, that they could purchase a bet- 

 ter and cheaper article at home, the production of our own superior 

 skill and ingenuity. And here, also, would the inventor resort, be- 

 fore he wasted capital, and days and months of intense thought and 

 laborious experiment, to ascertain whether his conceptions were not 

 already anticipated, and successfully executed by others. 



The committee, however, believe that every reflecting mind, un- 

 aided by any mere hints, or vague and meagre outline which it is in 

 their power to present within the space allotted them, will readily 

 perceive how vast and almost boundless are the advantages of such 

 an institution, properly established and conducted. They propose no 

 new experiment, they recommend no untried scheme. Such institu- 

 tions are already in successful existence in our own, as well as in 

 other countries; and no reason can be assigned or conceived, why 

 Connecticut, unsurpassed, if not unequalled, by any portion of our 



