Excerpt from Report of the Organization Committee: Of the Smithsonian Institution: With the Resolutions Accompanying the Same, and Adopted by the Board of Regents; Also the Will of the Testator, the Act Accepting the Bequest, and the Act Organizing the Instutution
Your committee are further of opinion that, in the museum, if the funds of the Institution permit, might judiciously be included various series of models illustrating the progress of some of the most useful inventions; such, for example, as the steam engine, from its earliest and rudest form, to its present improved state; but this they propose only so far as it may not encroach on ground already covered by the numerous models in the Patent Office.
Specimens of staple materials, of their gradual manufacture, and of the finished products of manufactures and the arts, may also, your committee think, be usefully introduced. This wo’uld supply opportunity to examine samples of the best manufactured articles our country affords, and to judge her gradual progress in arts and manufactures.
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