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Книга по требованию: Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1867, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1867, Vol. 4

An examination of the various objects in this department of the Exposition leads to the conclusion that since the former international exhibitions very little has been presented that is actually new. While displaying a great variety of beautiful modifications of instruments employed in the transmission of messages, showing the utmost mechanical skill and workmanship, deserving of the highest praise, it is found that most of them have already been exhibited in former international exhibitions, and have been noticed and described in the various reports of those exhibitions. Such instruments, for the most part, therefore, will require but a brief mention.

Some of the difficulties that were encountered in the pursuit of inquiries may as well be stated in the outset. The articles to be examined in the Exposition were not collected or arranged in one place as a class, but were widely dispersed under the products of the different countries, and had to be sought for in comparatively obscure parts of the vast area, surrounded by objects of a totally different character. Some of the instruments although named in the catalogue, could not be found; some named were actually not exhibited. Others had their complicated machinery carefully concealed under glass eases, or in their close frames of wood or brass, with the rather repulsive label "ne touchez pax, S. V. P.," to be met on the threshold, and which, though more politely expressed than our blunt Anglo-Saxon,"hands off," was quite as effective a barrier to free inquiry. To add to this inconvenience, there were, in most instances, no persons at hand, when the instruments were found, to explain the apparatus, and no printed or other description to be obtained. If, therefore, some of the instruments deserving of notice in this report are unnoticed, it will be seen that the neglect is one of necessity, and not of choice.

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