92 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1924 



at St. Louis. From A. W. Willet, Birmingham, England, the divi- 

 sion received as a gift an engineer's drawing in color of one of the 

 famous pumping engines built by James Watt and which is still in 

 existence. This particular pump was used for pumping water for 

 one of the canal systems near Birmingham. From Howard B. 

 Dailey, Battle Creek, Mich., there was received as a gift a small and 

 beautifully made static electric engine. It was designed by Mr. Dai- 

 ley and built by his father about 1880, the purpose being to demon- 

 strate that static electricity could be made to do work. By the very fine 

 adjustment of aluminum-coated wooden balls and the use of very light 

 woods for other moving parts, the phenomenon of electrical attrac- 

 tion and repulsion is utilized in turning the flywheel of the machine. 

 From Wilfred B. Ward, Richmond, Ind., there were received as a 

 gift five wood-cutting tools for making wood screws and screw 

 threads. These tools formed part of the equipment of the donor's 

 grandfather, who was a turner in Philadelphia about the beginning 

 of the nineteenth century. 



The section of metrology was materially enhanced by the acces- 

 sioning of two large groups of objects, one received as a transfer 

 from the Signal Corps of the Army, and the other as a gift of the 

 Taylor Instrument Companies, Rochester, N. Y., by James Ely, vice 

 president. The latter group consists of 31 specimens of thermome- 

 ters and barometers, visualizing the progressive changes in these 

 types of measuring instruments. They include industrial, house- 

 hold, and clinical thermometers and household, professional, and 

 laboratory barometers, including both mercurial barometers and 

 those of the aneroid type. From the Signal Corps were received 43 

 objects such as are currently used in meteorological work, including 

 sunshine recorders, rain gauges, recording thermometers and barome- 

 ters, hygrometers, anemometers, compasses, and theodolites — in other 

 words, all of the apparatus now in current use for weather and cli- 

 matic determinations. In the Army, of course, such data are es- 

 sential in aviation and in the use of heavy ordnance. The phono- 

 graph collections were enlarged by the gift of an original tinfoil 

 phonograph record such as was used about 1878 on the first Edison 

 phonographs. This record was presented by H. R. Dalton, Bos- 

 ton, Mass. Emile Berliner, Washington, donated another object 

 to his valuable collection showing the development of the Berliner 

 gramophone, namely, a heavy rubber disk record, made in 1898. 

 To the collection of watches there were added one Swiss watch 

 movement, a gift of Dr. Henry E. Karnofsky, Minneapolis, Minn., 

 and three watches and a chronometer, loaned by Donald S. Parsons, 

 Washington, D. C. 



