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Show National American Engineering Museum ttmMmitm A N ENGINEERING museum, the counterpart of the South Kensington Kensing-ton museum in London, the Ai.s et Meiiers in Paris and the German museum in Munich, is to be established estab-lished by the American Society of Mechanical Me-chanical Engineers under rie allspices of the Smithsonian Institution. It will be housed in the National museum at Washington. The society appointed a committee to co-operate in making a collection of historical material connected con-nected with Cornelius H. DeLamater i'.ud (.'apt. John Ericsson during their 50 years' association (lS40-lS;Kt) In the DeLamater Iron works. These works were the largest institution of their kind in their day and there developments de-velopments took place in naval, merchant mer-chant marine, ordnance and industrial engineering "which helped materially lo raise this nation from comparative unimportance to its recognition as the leading nation of the world, and yet of the details of this accomplishment there is no record." n seeking for a permanent depository for this historical collection the com-tnlr.ee com-tnlr.ee conferred with the Smithsonian Institution at Washington The institution insti-tution then not only solicited the plac ing of the DeLainater-Ericsson historical histori-cal collection in Its National museum, but proposed the co-operation of the committee in establishing the nucleus there of a great national engineering museum. Notwithstanding all that the engineers en-gineers have done for this country, it was not until 1020 that one of them, James B. Eads. was deemed worthy of being associated with the notables in other vocations in the Hall of Fame. The first monument to an engineer Is only now being erected and will be dedicated ded-icated to Capt. John Ericsson in 1924, adjoining tlie Lincoln memorial in Washington. The first engineer to be given a chair in a President's cabinet is Secretary ef Commerce Hoover. |