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and earlier development in America) from which at the first opportunity small models shall be made, which when accompanied by labels containing sketches in outline explaining graphically such details as are precluded by the limitations of a small model, shall before the close of this century place upon record in the Museum the history of the beginnings of the more important American Industrial Arts which have had such an immense influence in the development of our culture, our education, in fact all the characteristics of the progressive American. This can never by wholly done from the records of the patent office which contain only such documents and models as have been presented for examination and adjudication by persons mainly interested in drawing up claims which shall not interfere with the officially recognized inventions of others. Of this fact, Henry's invention of the electromagnetic sound telegraph is a conspicuous example.

The communication of idass through the medium of photography and the photo-mechanical processes is now so common that it is extremely difficult to attract the attention of the average museum visitor to a picture of ordinary size. The reproduction of an object in miniature is generally more attractive than the original. In examining a series showing the important steps in the improvement of an art, the desir-

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