110 REPOET OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. 



Propeller- wheel (duplicate, exact size) of steam-boat designed and 

 constructed by John Stevens, of Hoboken, New Jersey, 1804, witb 

 sketches of boats and machinery. Copied, by permission of the authori- 

 ties of the Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jersey, from the original 

 propeller-wheel preserved in the museum of that institution. 



Enlarged photographic copy of contemporaneous lithograph of the 

 steam-ship Savannah, the first steam-ship to cross the Atlantic, 1819. 

 As the log of the voyage of this vessel from Savannah (May 22, 1819), 

 under command of Capt. Moses Rogers, to Liverpool (June 20, 1819), 

 is in the collection, this contemporaneous lithograph is of particular 

 value. 



The original steam steering-engine (the first ever made) applied to 

 the steamer Augusta, 1859, a gift of F. E. Sickle, the inventor, is a most 

 interesting relic. 



Contemporaneous lithograph of the B. F. StocMon, the first steam- 

 vessel with iron hull or screw-propeller to cross the Atlantic, and a 

 piece of the original iron hull. Gift of the curator. 



On the 28th of May I was directed by the Assistant Secretary, in 

 charge U. S. National Museum, to prepare a series of models, drawings, 

 etc., illustrating the history of transportation, for the exposition at 

 Cincinnati, and during the remainder of the fiscal year my attention 

 was entirely devoted to that subject. 



A catalogue of the objects forwarded to that exposition will be pre- 

 sented in the next annual report. 



The following is a brief outline of the classification adopted : 



Glass J.— From the Atlantic to the Ohio Valley : Methods adopted 

 by the aborigines and early settlers. This class contained objects of 

 special local iuterest to the residents of the Ohio Valley and of the old 

 Northwest Territory. 



Glass IJ.— Development of the American locomotive : This class was 

 divided into two series. Series No. 1 included only such locomotives as 

 were either built in the United States or imported from England for 

 service on our railroads. The methods of construction of many of the 

 locomotives included in the series of foreign locomotives (No. 2) were, 

 however, closely studied by the early locomotive builders in the United 

 States, who, in some cases, sent representatives abroad to investigate 

 and report upon the locomotives being built there. Many of these .re- 

 ports found their way into the American journals devoted to invention, 

 and in some cases were published in book form, and thus had such im- 

 portant bearing upon the " development of the American locomotive " 

 that a failure to make reference to them would leave the chain of inven- 

 tion deficient in many links. 



Glass J7J.— Development of the American passenger car. 



Glass IV. — Development of the American rail and track. 



Glass F.— Development of the American steam-boat and modem 

 steam-ship. 



