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DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ARTS. 
Such contributions to the Department of Industrial Arts as 
are available for museum purposes have been arranged to show, 
as far as possible, the more important steps which have led to 
improvement in handiwork, or progress in the invention cf those 
implements, machines, and processes which have proved to be 
important factors in the world s material development. 
The objects exhibited have, with a few exceptions, been 
culled and classified from a large mass of contributed material. 
Owing to the limited space available for the creation of special 
sections, many gifts to the department have been temporarily 
placed in storage. 
Since intercommunication has had so great an influence upon 
every department of applied science, and especially upon what 
may be called the epoch-making inventions, the groupings have 
been made irrespective of geographical lines. 
The Divisions of the Department of Industrial Arts thus far 
created are as follows, located in the Halls specified: 
Division of Textile Industries: Halls 30 and 31. 
Division of Gems, Gold, and Curios: Hall 32, Alcove 105. 
Division of Ceramic Industries: Hall 33. 
Division of Transportation. 
A. Marine Transportation : Halls 37 and 38. 
B. Human Burthen-Bearers : Hall 39. 
C. Pack Animals : Hall 40. 
D. Land Vehicles : Hall 55. 
E. Street (or Tram) Cars : Hall 54. 
Division of the Railway. 
Evolution of the Locomotive : Halls 43 to 53. 
Pennsylvania Railroad Collection : Halls 41, 57 * 
Railway Appliances : Hall 42. 
