The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-16
A Novel Exhibit Of Models to Be Made
nv the Goyerumauf


WASHINGTON CITY, Nov. IA - Especial. IA
new departure will be made by the patent Office
at the Worlds fair in Chicago. Hitherto il has
never attempted to go beyond an exhibition of
photographs and drawings. In this instance II
will offer an elaborate and comprehensive dis
play of models. The show will be designed to
illustrate as completely and as wildly as posi-
BILE the age of mechanical civilization. II will
give in concrete form 8 picture of the progress
of invention.
The commissioner OF patents says that the
great exhi bit of the patent office will be found
in machinery hail, where the results of the
patent system will be displayed All that will
be attempted in the show proper of this bureau
will be 20 illustrate the processes through
which those achievements have been perfected.
For this purpose groups of models will be pre-
pared. For example, one group will represent
the progress of the steam engine, beginning
with the first one, which was invented and
built $50 years before Christ, by Greek named
Hero. 1t had boiler snd was able to do work
by means OF a shaft and belt attachment. From
this primitive continuance to the modern Cor
liss engine, in miniature, an interesting series
will extend.
Other groups viii be similarly arranged One
will represent the printing press, all the way
from Guienbergs original invention to the
rotary Hoe machine, which turns out news
papers at the rate of many thousands per hour,
and folds them ready Tor delivery. In electric
ity wonders of all sorts will be illustrated by
progressive series. There will be telephones
running all the way from the primitive concep-
ton to the perfected instrument now in use.
The telegraph will be introduced with the ac-
tual instrument made by Morse, by which the
first experimental messages were sent over
the wire from Washington City to Bati-
more, this line of discovery culminat-
ing with the latest devices for printing mes
sages at any distance with type and transmit
ting ones own handwriting across thousands of
miles OF space in fraction of a second. The
growth OF the locomotive will be shown in like
manner; also that of the sewing machine, of the
marvellous modern agricultural implements
from primitive types, of clocks, from the water
clock OF ancient Babylon. and the later hour
glass, etc.
Many OF the models required for these groups
are already in the possession of the patent
office, but large number will have to be con-
structed especially for the purpose. Menufact-
urers all over the country will be asked
to supply specimens of their products for
representing the latest developments of inven-
tive art. The locomotive works will be re-
Quested to lend miniature models of their
newest engines. Makers of agricultural tools and
sewing machines will contribute the most i'm
proved specimens of their handiwork. Like
wise with printing presses and everything else.
Few, IL any, of the mechanical models will be
set working, however. On the whole, this ex-
hibit of the department of the interior seems
likely to be the most remarkable and interesting
of all the government displays to be made at the