Crystal Palace International Electric Exhibition 1881-82

85 metals. The cement can. be applied instantly, and can be supplied transparent or of any colour. Concert Room Gallery. 333 .—J. Storer, Stamford Brook Villa, Goldhawk Road, Ham- mersmith. A. Portable Electric Fountain, suitable for the dinner- table, drawing-room, &c.; it is complete in itself, and requires only a half-pint of water; will play for an unlimited time, and is not liable to get out of order. The design may be varied accord- ing to taste. Invented and patented by Joseph Storer, of Stamford Brook Villa, Goldhawk Road, Hammersmith. Eastern Gallery. 334 .—Evan Thomas, Cambrian Lamp Works, Aberdare. Case of Miners’ Safety Lamps, comprising various patterns of patents, and including the following : Old Steel Mill, Davy’s, Clanny’s, Stephenson, Mueseter’s, Grey’s, Thomas’s, &c., &c.; made to the most modern improvements, and fitted with. Evan Thomas’s patent glass ring, which admits of the expansion of the glass when heated, and thus prevents its breaking. Eastern Gallery. 335 .—United Asbestos Company, Limited, 161, Queen Victoria Street. Samples of Articles manufactured from the crude Asbestos obtained from the Company’s mines in Italy. Asbestos is a perfect non-conductor, and is invaluable for all purposes where power to resist heat produced by electric currents is a desideratum. It is shown here as a covering for dynamo floors, accumulators, armature and electric coils and caps, &c. &c. (See Advt. p. 124.) Eastern Gallery. 336 .—B. Verity & Sons, 31, King Street, Covent Garden only. (See Edison’s Exhibit.) The Chandeliers and other appliances constituting the exhibit of this firm are especially designed and registered for the Edison Incandescent Lamps. (See Advt. p. 117.) Concert Room and Entertainment Court. 337 .—P. De Villiers, M.D., 234, Maiylebone Road, London. Articles prepared by the “ Miriam ” Process (patent) : viz. Steel and iron made inoxydizable by impregnation with an inoxydizable alloy and finished by electric power: knives, table and dessert cutlery, carvers, dinner-service plates, swords, scabbards, revolvers, guns, rifles, electric appliances, various specimens of machinery impregnated by the “ Mirium ” process. Gallery at back of Concert-Room. 337a.—Magnus Volk, Telegraph Works, Ditchling Rise, Brighton. Collection of Parts used in connection with Sub- marine Mining, Electric Lamp-making, Telephony, Telegraphy, &c. Eastern Gallery. 338 .—Joseph Wallis, 133 and 135, Euston Road. A Music Electrograph, (patented). A new and very simple invention for recording, by means o£ telegraphy, selections of music played extempore or otherwise upon pianos, organs, or harmoniums. Specially valuable to composers, preserving as it does every note they may strike. North Nave. 339 .—Dan Walters & Sons, 44, Newgate Street, E.C. Wire Insulating Machine (patented, 1881). Apparatus for covering copper wire with silk or cotton, for use in telephones and other electrical appliances. This machine covers so uniformly that - -