Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 12th July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 12th May, 1896-Accepted, 13th June, 1896
I, ABRAHAM NEHEMIAH JAMES, of 1 Clifton Street, Aberdare, in the County
of Glamorgan, R.A.M. Professor of Music, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
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My invention relates to dominoes and has for its object to adapt the same for
educational purposes and at the same time to render the playing of the game of
dominoes more amusing than heretofore.
According to my invention I dispense with the usual marking of the dominoes
and use instead say the symbols of the musical scale of notation and other signs
and expressions used in music; for example for the musical scale of notation
I make use of the signs or characters representing the breve, semibreve, minim,
crotchet, quaver, semiquaver and demisemiquaver, the double domino of one séries
being a double breve, a double semibreve, a double minim and so on, and the
several dominoes of each series being marked with the various characters of lower
value than the double.
It will be readily understood that children using dominoes marked as above
described will readily familiarize themselves with the several musical signs and
thus prepare their minds for the earliest rudiments of musical knowledge.
It will be obvious that by suitably marking the dominoes, they may be adapted
for use for other educational purposes than music.
Deted the 19th day of July 1895.
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G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
Educational DOMUS..
I, ABRAHAM NEHEMIAH JAMES, of 1, Clifton Street, Aberdare, in the County
of Glamorgan, R.A.M. Professor of Music, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to dominoes and has for its object to adapt the same for
educational purposes and at the same time to render the playing of games with
dominoes more amusing and instructive than heretofore.
According to my invention I dispense with the usual marking of the dominoes
and use instead, say, the symbols of the musical scale of notation and other signs
and expressions used in music, or the symbols by which planetary bodies are usually
known in combination or not with different distinctive colours; for example for the
musical scale of notation I may make use of the signs or characters representing
the breve, semibreve, minim, crotchet, quaver, semiquaver and demisemiquaver, the
double dominoes being a double breve, a double semibreve, a double minim and so
on, and the other dominoes being marked with the various characters of lower value
than the double. Or the dominoes may be marked with the first seven letters of
the alphabet and also the syllables of the tonic sol fa notation, viz. do, re, mi, fa,
sol, la si.

page_text: To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figures 1, 2, 3 are representations of three of a set of my, educational dominoes
designed for familiarizing children and others with musical signs:
Figures 4, 5 and 6 are similar views of dominoes designed for instructing children
and others in astronomical names and signs.
In the first named set the domino of highest value is the double breve, Figure 1,
and that of lowest value is a double domino like that, for example, shewn at
Figure 3, on which is inscribed various information, and which supplies the place
of the double blank in ordinary dominoes; the other double dominoes in their
order of value are the double semibreve, double minim, double crotchet, double
quaver and double semiquaver. The other dominoes are the single breve with
signs of lower value, such for example as the breve and quaver, Figure 3, the
single semibreve with signs of lower value and so on, thus making up the complete
set of 28 dominoes. The names of the various notes are also inscribed on the
dominoes.
Games can be played with my educational dominoes similar to those with
ordinary dominoes, for instance :-The dominoes are well mixed and laid face
downwards and divided amongst the players. The first player plays a domino and
the next player, if possible, finds a domino with a similar note or sign thereon to
match and so on; should one of the players be unable to play, on account of not
having a domino to match, the next player must play. The names of all the notes
or signs should be read out by the players as the dominoes are played.
The second set of dominoes illustrated by Figures 4, 5 and 6 are marked with
the names of planets, such as Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and
Neptune, together with the signs or symbols by which they are usually known and
the real diameters of the planets, the value of the dominoes being according to the
magnitude of the planets marked thereon.
There are double dominoes of each planet, as shewn, for example, at Figure t,
and single dominoes to match (as illustrated at Figures 5 and 6) to make up the
usual total of 28 dominoes.. The game is played in a similar manner to that
described with reference to the music dominoes.
It will be readily understood that children using dominoes marked as above
described will readily familiarize themselves with the several musical and
astronomical signs and thus prepare their minds for the earliest rudiments of
musical and astronomical knowledge.
It will be obvious that by suitably marking the dominoes they may be adapted
for use for other educational purposes than music or astronomy.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
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1. Educational dominoes in which the usual marking is dispensed with and
symbols, signs, syllables and expressions used in music, or symbols by which
planetary bodies are known, or other symbols, signs, characters or information
(combined or not with different distinctive colours) are substituted therefor, the
dominoes being designed to instruct children and others while playing the usual
games with dominoes, substantially as herein before described.
2. The manufacture and use of dominoes designed for imparting instruction while
playing the usual games with dominoes, substantially as hereinbetore described with
reference to Figures 1 to 3 and Figures 4 to 6 of the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 12th day of May 1896.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.