. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. 16 NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 19 60 inventions of Edward Brown), a loan exhibition of machinery used in compiling the United States census, a clispla}' of American surveying- instruments, and a collection of astrolabes received from the Inter- national Business Machines Corporation. Curator Eugene S. Ferguson submitted a preliminary script for the hall of tools. He also supervised the trial erection in the laboratory. The first electric coal cutter (left) and the high intensity arc for searchlights (right)


. Annual report for the year ended June 30 .... United States National Museum. 16 NATIONAL MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT, 19 60 inventions of Edward Brown), a loan exhibition of machinery used in compiling the United States census, a clispla}' of American surveying- instruments, and a collection of astrolabes received from the Inter- national Business Machines Corporation. Curator Eugene S. Ferguson submitted a preliminary script for the hall of tools. He also supervised the trial erection in the laboratory. The first electric coal cutter (left) and the high intensity arc for searchlights (right) were among the many inventions of Elmer A. Sperry that were shown in the exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of his birth in 1860. of a pre-Civil War machine shop and the restoration of the machine tools to be displayed in it. Several exhibits for this liall are being- prepared for temporary exhibition. Edwin A. Battison, associate curator, completed an exhibits script foi- the hall of light machinery and supervised the erection in the laboratory of the clockmaker's shop that will be a feature exhibit in this ball. Exhibits for the hall are being designed bv Fred C^raig. Associate curator Rolx'rt AI. Vogel gave scientific supervision to the production of W exhibit units, designed by John Brown, for the l)ridges section of tiie liall of civil engineering, and wrote the specifica-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum. [Washington] : Smithsonian Institution


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