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A Model of a Telegraph

This day Mr. Joseph Brantingham has taken charge of the model of the Window Shutters [he] invented and sent to the Museum by Mr. Blanchard of N. York

Numerous additions to the Philosophical Apparatus, execu[te]d by Franklin Peale

A Viameter, which belonged to the late Dr. D'Orleans

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A Model of a New invented Telegraph

A corroded preperation of human Kidney shewing Arteries Veins, and Ureters

A new invented wheel for Mills, to work by the flowing of Tides, invented by Simon Willard, Junr. a native of Massachusetts, New England

Richard Harlan's Collection of Craniology and Comparative Anatomy

A Draisina or Velocipede, invented by Count Drais of Germany

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Plaster Head, to show the original System of Craniolgoy, by Dr. Gall

A galvanic apparatus

Models of Thomas Paine's iron bridge

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A drill-plough, and a plough for weeding and hoeing, particularly for garden use

The new and mysterious experiment of lighting cold platinum with a stream of cold hydrogen gas