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During the^[[se]] meetings which were attended by citizens from all parts of the country a loan collection was installed in the Lecture Hall of the National Museum, where machines of antique design, models and early parents were inspected and studied by many visitors drawn to Washington by their interest in the Patent Centennial Celebration. [[/strikethrough]] Among [[/strikethrough]] ^[[In]] this [[strikethrough]] especially [[/strikethrough]] attractive collection were patents signed by James Madison President of the United States and James Monrow Secretary of State, March 3, 1813, grant^[[ing]] to John W. Borough and Jesse Talbot [[strikethrough]] for [[/strikethrough]] the sole right to manufacture a refrigerator; several patents and assignments of patents granted by the English Government in 1877, were also in the collection.

No better description of the character of this loan exhibition can be furnished than that contained in the Washington Evening Star, April ^[[8th]] 1891, which reads as follows:
([[strikethrough]] Nov Nov Spoffosh you have this[[/strikethrough]])