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Copy. ^[[Revised by J.E.W; [[underline]]& returned Feb. 23 '94 [[/underline]] [[stamp]] Examined by [[/stamp]] ^[[eight plates & [[underline]]4 test pgs.[[/underline]] ^[[circled]][[Out]] [[underline]] Report on the Section of Transportation and Engineering in the U. S. National Museum, 1893. By J. Elfreth Watkins, Honorary Curator. [[/underline]] ^[[(This report was not printed.)]] During the first quarter of the fiscal year, the duties of the Curator, while Assistant-in Charge of the Library of the Smithsonian Institution, engrossed so much of his attention that little time could be given to the work in the section of transportation and engineering. On October first,1892, the Curator, at the invitation of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and with the consent of the authorities of the U.S. National Museum, took charge of the work of organizing and collecting the historical and technical exhibit made by that Company at the World's Columbian Exposition, and this work engrossed almost his entire attention until the close of the fiscal year. ^[[p.6]] [[strikethrough]] there were 31 entries made in the catalogue of the department during the year,embracing 37 specimens.[[/strikethrough]] [[underline]]Exhibits sent to the^[[World's]] Columbian Exposition.]] By the request of Messrs. Wyckoff, Seamans and Benedict, the depositors, the valuable collection of early Remington typewriting machines including the Danish "Malling-Hansen typewriter or writing ball", the "Sholes and Glidden" model, invented in 1876, and the first machine in which the double type-bar was used, were lent to the U.S. Patient Office for purposes connected with the World's Columbian Exposition. the model of the locomotive "Old Ironsides"