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Machine art : March 6 to April 30, 1934
Date
1934
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Machine Art
March 6 to April 30, 1934
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LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION
The Accessories Co., Inc., 40 West 40th Street, N. Y.
Division American Radiator Co.
Bathroom equipment
Aluminum Company of America, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Tubing, pistons, propellers, radiators, partitions
The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co., New Kensington, Pa.
American Radiator Co., 40 West 40th Street, N. Y.
American Sheet & Tin Plate Co., 71 Broadway, N. Y.

Subsidiary United States Steel Corp.
Stainless steel partitions, automobile hubcap
American Steel & Wire Co., Worcester, Mass. Subsidiary United States Steel Corp.
Cables, springs, strip steel
Arundell Clarke Ltd., 620 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.

Ash tray
The Bingham Stamping & Tool Co., 1062 Post Street, Toledo, Ohio
(R. Aberli, Jr., 225 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.)
Trays
Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. (46 West Broadway, N. Y.)
The Brown Instrument Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
Meter
Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co., Providence, R. I.

(Brown & Sharpe of N. Y., Inc., 20 Vesey Street, N. Y.)
Precision instruments
L. D. Cahn Co., 81 Spring Street, N. Y.
Stainless steel utensils
Carnegie Steel Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. Subsidiary United States Steel Corp.
Car wheel and axle
Chase Brass & Copper Co., Waterbury, Conn.

(Specialty Sales Division, 200 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.)
Bowls, trays, plates
Clyde-Mallory Line
Switchboard
Conant Bros. Co., Somerville, Mass., (6 East 45th Street, N. Y.)

Bathroom fittings
The Conover Co., Chicago, 111., (101 Park Avenue, N. Y.)

Dishwasher
Coors Porcelain Co., Golden, Colorado

Laboratory porcelain
LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION— Continued
P. & F. Corbin, 101 Park Avenue, N. Y.

Hardware
Corning Glass Works, Corning, N. Y., (501 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.)

Laboratory glass, vases, bowls
Design Engineers, Inc., 745 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.

Picture frames
Dictaphone Sales Corporation, 420 Lexington Avenue, N. Y.
Eugene Dietzgen Co., Inc., 218 East 23rd Street, N. Y.

Drafting and surveying instruments
Henry Disston & Sons, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa.

Saw, trowel
Distillers Products Corp., Empire State Building, N. Y.

Rumidor
Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc., 622 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.

Pipes and smoking accessories
Eimer & Amend, Third Avenue at 18th Street, N. Y.

Laboratory glass, scientific instruments
Electric Boat Company, Bayonne, N. J.
Propeller
Electrol Inc., 227 East 45th Street, N. Y.

Furnace
Electromaster Inc., 1803 East Atwater Street, Detroit, Mich.

Range
The Fay Co., 130 Madison Avenue, N. Y.
Floor machine
Fleetwings, Inc., Garden City, L. I.
Aeroplane wing rib
Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, Mich.
Headlamps
Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, Mich. (Louis C. Eitzen, 280 Broadway, N. Y.)
Measuring device
Fostoria Glass Co., Moundsville, W. Va., (200 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.)
Tumblers, goblets, plates, vases
The Gorharn Co., Providence, R. I., (6 West 48th Street, N. Y.)
Flat silver
Hamilton Beach Manufacturing Co., Racine, Wis. (280 Broadway, N. Y.)
Vacuum cleaner
Hamilton-Standard Propeller Corp., Hartford, Conn.
Hanson Scale Co., 523 North Ada Street, Chicago, 111., (1150 Broadway, N. Y.)
Bathroom scale
Hoffmann & Billings Manufacturing Co., Milwaukee, Wis.
(Henry Stein, 50 Cliff Street, N. Y.)
Mixer Faucet
Holophane Co., Inc., 342 Madison Avenue, N. Y.
Diffusing lenses
Howell Co., Geneva, 111.
Metal chairs
The International Nickel Co., Inc., 67 Wall Street, N. Y.
Sink
Jaeger Watch Co., Inc., 304 East 45th Street, N. Y.
Janes & Kirtland, Inc., 101 Park Avenue, N. Y.
Kitchen cabinets
Lalance & Grosjean Mfg. Co., Woodhaven, L. I. (405 Lexington Avenue, N. Y.)
Kitchen ware
Leeds & Northrup Co., 4901 Stenton Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.
Potentiometer
Lenox Inc., Trenton, N. J.
Porcelain vases, plates
Lewis & Conger, 45th Street and Sixth Avenue, N. Y.
Knives, spoons, enamel kitchenware, glassware
Lily-Tulip Cup Corp., 122 East 42nd Street, N. Y.
Paper cups and containers, dispensers
Herman Miller Clock Co., Zeeland, Mich. (62 West 47th Street, N. Y.)
I he National Cash Register Co., Dayton, Ohio. (205 East 42nd Street, N. Y.)
National Tube Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. Subsidiary United States Steel Corp.
Stainless steel tubing
Ovington's, Fifth Avenue at 39th Street, N. Y.
Imported glassware, enlarging mirror
Owens-Illinois Glass Co., Toledo, Ohio. (405 Lexington Avenue, N. Y.)
Bottles and jars
Platinel, Inc., 103 Washington Avenue, Albany, N. Y.
Ash tray
Platinum Products Co., 521 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.
Cigarette lighters
Polar Ware Co., Inc., Sheboygan, Wis. (239 Eleventh Avenue, N. Y.)
Ki tchen ware
Revere Copper & Brass Inc., Rome Manufacturing Division, Rome, N. Y.
(230 Park Avenue, N. Y.)
Kitchenware, bowls
Ritter Dental Manufacturing Co., Inc., Rochester, N. Y. (200 Fifth Avenue N Y )

X-ray apparatus ' '
^ Industries, Inc., Front Street and Erie Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.
Ball bearing
Saks-Fifth Avenue, 611 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.
Accessories
Scovill Manufacturing Co., Waterville, Conn.
Flush valve
Scully Steel Products Co., Waverly, N. J. Subsidiary United States Steel Corp.
Boiled steel sections
The Silex Company, Hartford, Conn. (E. B. Latham & Co., 250 Fourth Ave., N. Y.)
Standard Gage Co., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Subsidiary Ford Motor Co.
... (Louis C. Eitzen, 280 Broadway, N. Y.)
Measuring device *
The Standard Oil Co. of Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio
Gasoline pump
Carol Stupell, 443 Madison Avenue, N. Y.
Martini mixer
Sullivan Shipyards, Inc., 827 East 9th Street, N. Y.
Propeller
Taylor Instrument Companies, Rochester, N. Y. (30 Rockefeller Plaza, N. Y.)
Thonet Brothers, Inc., 33 East 47th Street, N. Y.
Metal chairs
The Torsion Balance Co., 92 Reade Street, N. Y.
Torsion scale
United States Steel Corp., 71 Broadway, New York — Lent through subsidiaries
Kurt Yersen, 19 East 47th Street, N. Y.
Lighting fixtures
Waters-Genter Co., Minneapolis, Minn.
. (Tumbridge Sales Corp., 196 Lexington Avenue, N. Y.)
Electrical cooking appliances
Western Clock Co., LaSalle, 111.
Westinghouse F4ectric & Manufacturing Co., N. Y.
Insulators, lamps, fuse, switchboard, micarta panels, meters, clock motors
The S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co., 500 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.
Russel Wright, 165 East 35th Street, N. Y.
Wooden bowls and tableware
The Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co., Stamford, Conn.
Padlock
York Safe & Lock Co., York, Pa. (55 Maiden Lane, N. Y.)
Carl Zeiss Inc., 485 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.
Optical instruments
In addition to those who have lent to the Exhibition, the President and Trustees
of The Museum of Modern Art wish to thank
for their assistance in procuring objects not manufactured or owned by them
United States Steel Corporation
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
Aluminum Company of America
for generously lending materials for installation

American Sheet & Tin Plate Company, Subsidiary United States Steel Corp.
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
Lily-Tulip Cup Corporation
for the design of the cover

Prof. Josef Albers, Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, N. C.
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for the photography in the catalog
Miss Ruth Bernhard
for his assistance in designing the installation

Mr. Jan von Ruhtenberg, of Stockholm
for their special advice

Prof. C. R. Richards, of the New York Museum of Science & Industry
Prof. H. R. Hitchcock, Jr. of Wesleyan University
TRUSTEES COMMITTEE ON THE EXHIBITION

A. Conger Goodyear, President Stephen C. Clark
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Treasurer A. Conger Goodyear
Samuel A. Lewisohn, Secretary Nelson A. Rockefeller
William T. Aldrich
James W. Barney Philip Johnson, Director of the Exhibition
Frederic Clay Bartlett Ernestine M. Fantl, Assistant
Cornelius N. Bliss
Stephen C. Clark
Mrs. W. Murray Crane
Frank Crowninshield
Duncan Phillips
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Mrs. Rainey Rogers
Mrs. Charles C. Rumsey
Paul J. Sachs
Mrs. John S. Sheppard
Edward M. M. Warburg
John Hay Whitney
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Director

Alan R. Blackburn, Jr., Executive Director
Philip Johnson, Chairman, Department of Architecture
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By beauty of shapes I do not mean, as most people would suppose,

the beauty of living figures or of pictures, but, to make my point
clear, I mean straight lines and circles, and shapes, plane or solid,
made from them by lathe, ruler and square. These are not, like
other things, beautiful relatively, but always and absolutely.
Plato: Philebus 51 c
Ad pulchritudinem tria requiruntur. Primo quidem integritas, sive per

fects : quae enim diminuta sunt, hoc ipso turpia sunt. Et debita proportio,
sive consonantia. Et iterum claritas: unde quae habent colorem nitidum.
pulchra esse dicuntur.
For beauty three things are required. First, then, integrity or per
fection: those things which are broken are bad for this very reason.
And also a due proportion or harmony. And again clarity: whence
those things which have a shining color are called beautiful.
St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae , I, q. 39, a. 8.,

quoted by Jacques Maritain in Art et Scolastique ,
Paris, 1927, page 250
Industrial civilization must either find a means of ending the

divorce between its industry and its "culture" or perish.
L. P. Jacks: Responsibility and Culture

FOREWORD
Machine Art and Geometrical Beauty.
The beauty of machine art is in part the abstract beauty of "straight

lines and circles" made into actual tangible "surfaces and solids" by means
of tools, "lathes and rulers and squares." In Plato's day the tools were
simple handworker's implements but today, as a result of the perfection of
modern materials and the precision of modern instruments, the modern
machine-made object approaches far more closely and more frequently
those pure shapes the contemplation of which Plato calls the first of the
"pure pleasures."
Machines are, visually speaking, a practical application of geometry.
Forces which act in straight lines are changed in direction and degree by
machines which are themselves formed of straight lines and curves. The
lever is geometrically a straight line resting on a point. The wheel and
axle is composed of concentric circles and radiating straight lines. The
watch spring (No. 7) is a spiral. Sphericity and circularity are the geo
metrical characteristics of a ball bearing (No. 50). Screws, bearing springs
(No. 1), and propellers (No. 41) are various —and variously beautiful —
applications of the helix and helicoid.
Static and Kinetic Rhythms.
The beauty of machine art depends often upon rhythmical as well as

upon geometrical elements —upon repetition as well as upon shape. The
teeth of a saw form a simple static rhythmic series; the keys and levers
of the cash register (No. 88) make a more varied and complex series.
Motion is an essential function of many machines and sometimes
increases their aesthetic interest, principally through the addition of tem
poral rhythms, both of movement and of sound. The pistons of a locomotive
or the rising and falling frames of a mechanical loom illustrate the point.
On the other hand a propeller, a governor, a rotary saw, a ball bearing are
more beautiful as objects when they are still or, better, moving very slowly.
Even the streamlined object is more frequently admired when at rest than
when in motion. Fortunately for this exhibition machines proper are only a
small part of machine art as a whole.
Technical and Material Beauty.
In addition to perfection of shape and rhythm, beauty of surface is an

important aesthetic quality of machine art at its best. Perfection of surface
is, of course, made possible by the refinement of modern materials and the
precision of machine manufacture. A watch spring is beautiful not only
for its spiral shape but also for its bright steel surface and its delicately
exact execution.
Machine art, devoid as it should be of surface ornament, must depend
upon the sensuous beauty of porcelain, enamel, celluloid, glass of all colors,
copper, aluminum, brass and steel. The circles and spheres of a ball bearing
(No. 50) are greatly enhanced by the contrasting surfaces of brushed steel
races, shining polished steel balls, and brass carriers.
Visual Complexity.
The beauty in machine art as in all art varies in relation but not in
proportion to its complexity. A watch crystal, perfect though it may be,
is too simple a form to hold our visual interest for long. A printing press,
on the other hand, is too complicated an arrangement of shapes for the
human eye to enjoy aesthetically. Moderately simple machine compositions
such as the door of a wall safe (No. 91) or the microscope (No. 314) or our
classical example, the ball bearing (No. 50) prove more satisfactory.
Function.
A knowledge of function may be of considerable importance in the

visual enjoyment of machine art, though Plato might have considered such
knowledge an impurity. Mechanical function and utilitarian function —
"how it works" and "what it does" —are distinct problems, the former
requiring in many cases a certain understanding of mechanics, the latter,
of practical use. Whoever understands the dynamics of pitch in propeller
blades (No. 41) or the distribution of forces in a ball bearing (No. 50) so
that he can participate imaginatively in the action of mechanical functions
is likely to find that this knowledge enhances the beauty of the objects.*
In the same way, using or understanding the use of, the calipers (No. 294),
the retort (No. 394), or the rotary floor polisher (No. 71) is likely to increase
their aesthetic value.
* For most people the beauty of that ingenious engine, the Gothic vault, is augmented by a knowledge
of the mechanics which govern its structure and visible form.
Fortunately the functional beauty of most of the objects is not obscure
and in any case, so far as this exhibition is concerned, appreciation of their
beauty in the platonic sense is more important.
Machine Art and the Designer.
The previous paragraphs have considered the aesthetic enjoyment

of machines and machine-made objects without mentioning their designers.
The designers are of two kinds, technical and artistic. Often one man will
combine both roles. For even the most impractical and fantastic "styler"
of "modernistic" plumbing fixtures (not included in the exhibition) must
consider function; and the most forthright technical designer of micro
scopes (No. 314) will insist on a perfection of shape and finish which is
partially aesthetic.
Many of the finest objects in the exhibition such as the bearing spring
(No. 1) or the depth gauge (No. 289) are produced quite without benefit
of artist-designer. Their beauty is entirely unintentional— it is a by-product.
Nevertheless they satisfy through their "integrity", "due proportion" and
clarity," the excellent thomistic definition of the beautiful as "that which
being seen, pleases".*
Many other objects, the clock (No. 270), the chair (No. 282), the
lamp (No. 273), are the result of conscious artistic intention. For in a great
many useful objects function does not dictate form, it merely indicates
form in a general way. The role of the artist in machine art is to choose,
from a variety of possible forms each of which may be functionally ade
quate, that one form which is aesthetically most satisfactory. He does not
embellish or elaborate, but refines, simplifies and perfects.
Machine Art and Fine Art.
Good machine art is entirely independent of painting, sculpture and
architecture. But it may be noted in passing that modern artists have been
much influenced by machine art. The Italian futurists, Russolo and Balla,
and their English and Russian followers were romantically excited by the
power and speed—the dinamismo— of machines, f Painters such as Leger
and Baumeister have been interested in the decorative and formal qualities
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of machines. Malyevitch, Lissitsky and Mondriaan have used technicians'
tools, the compass and the square, to achieve "abstract" geometrical paint
ings of a machine-like precision. Picabia and Grosz used machines to invoke
the mirthless laughter of dadaism.
The Russian constructivists, Tatlin, Gabo, Pevsner, employed the
technique, the materials and something of the structural feeling of machinery.
The severity and glittering polish of machines have also affected the sculp
tors Brancusi, Archipenko and Belling.
Machine art has been the principal influence which has purged the best
post-war architecture from the compromises of both the "modernistic" and
revivalist architects. It is true that the ideas back of Le Corbusier's famous
phrase "the house should be a machine a habiter ' have given rise to much
naive and dreary functionalism. But the leaders of modern architecture
today are united in restoring the artistic function of the architect to its
place beside his technical function.
Machine Forms and Natural Forms.
The beauty of the machine art in so far as it is a mere by-product of
function may seem a meagre and even trivial kind of beauty. But this is not
necessarily so. The beauty of all natural objects is also a by-product —the
helix of a snail's shell (and a steel coil), the graduated feathering of a bird's
wing (and the leaves of a laminated spring), the rabbit's footprints in the
snow (and the track of non-skid tires), the elegance of fruit (and of incan
descent bulbs) .
"Industry and Culture"
It is in part through the aesthetic appreciation of natural forms that
man has carried on his spiritual conquest of nature's hostile chaos. Today
man is lost in the far more treacherous wilderness of industrial and com
mercial civilization. On every hand machines literally multiply our diffi
culties and point our doom. If, to use L. P. Jack's phrase, we are to "end
the divorce" between our industry and our culture we must assimilate the
machine aesthetically as well as economically. Not only must we bind
Frankenstein —but we must make him beautiful.
A. H. B., Jr.
HISTORY OF MACHINE ART.
Machine Art and Handicraft.

The history of machine art is interwoven with that of handicraft, but
in spirit machine art and handicraft are diametrically opposed. Handicraft
implies irregularity, picturesqueness, decorative value and uniqueness:
figured textiles, pottery vases, decorative friezes, hand- wrought metal work,
liand-hammered silver bowls. The machine implies precision, simplicity,
smoothness, reproducibility: plain textiles, vases as simple as laboratory
beakers, smooth polished metal work.
The difference between craft and the machine lies in spirit and conven
tion as much as in actual method of manufacture. Tools, and simple machines
have always been used : the potter s wheel and the hand loom are machines.
Modern equipment is merely more efficient and complex. But whether the
designer sits at the loom and works up the pattern as he weaves or whether
a motor weaves and the designer sits in an office, the actual work is by
machine. A man at a hand loom can weave a rug of machine-like simplicity.
A glass blower can make laboratory beakers as well as picturesquely shaped
vases. But the craft spirit does not fit an age geared to machine technique.
Machine-made imitations of craft objects are parodies, and the real handi
crafts have lost their original vigor.
In the development of the design of machines and useful objects, the
nineteenth century is an anomaly. In previous periods the normal tendency
had been to utilize the best technical and mechanical devices known and to
design for these devices. After the invention of the potter's wheel, vase
designs were logically based on its use. But in the nineteenth century technics
and design were divorced. Machines made bad designs while good designs
continued to be executed by primitive methods.
The twentieth century is gradually rectifying this anomaly and is
returning to the more reasonable principle of designing tools and useful
objects with reference to the latest technique, out of the most durable
material, and as economically as possible. In the same way the mother art
of architecture has achieved style after the revivals of the nineteenth century
by once more fusing with the latest technique of building science.
The Nineteenth Century.
The Industrial Revolution and the development of machine production
in England in the latter part of the eighteenth century brought only ugliness
to ordinary life. It caused slums; it built ugly factories. For utensils it made
bad replicas of ugly hand-made objects. People of sensibility in the nine
teenth century hated the machines which seemed ugly and created ugliness.
They failed to see the possibilities inherent in the new technics. Instead,
they misused or rejected the new technics and developed their architecture
and useful arts on a handicraft basis.
Nevertheless the science of engineering in the nineteenth century pro
duced a few great buildings. The Crystal Palace at the London Exposition
of 1851 is now considered one of the important ancestors of modern archi
tecture. At the time, however, its great mass of glass and steel framework
was considered too plain and ugly to deserve even the label of architecture.
All the engineering works of the latter part of the nineteenth century and
the beginning of the twentieth were considered mere utilitarian objects and
as such were looked down upon. The science of building, however, developed
rapidly and by the time of the World War had produced many excellent
factories, grain silos and bridges.
Meanwhile architecture, independently of engineering, was moving
toward simplicity. Philip Webb, Norman Shaw and their followers broke
away from Classical and Medieval Revivalism and started the movement
known as Queen Anne. In America, H. H. Richardson under the guise of
Romanesque Revivalism, was creating his own sturdy simplicity. Rut only
after the War did the stream of architecture join the stream of engineering,
to give birth to a genuinely modern architecture. The development of the
dependent arts paralleled that of architecture.
At first Gothic and Classical ornament (Fig. a), then Victorian rococo
ornament was used whenever possible in designing machine art. Remarkable
exceptions were the designs of Sir Joseph Whitworth, strictly simple and
functional (Fig. b). He exhibited his machines in the same London Exposi
tion of 1851 where the Crystal Palace caused so much comment. They
received no more approbation from the designers of the day than the Crystal
Palace did from the architects.
William Morris, the great reformer of the minor arts, especially hated
the machine; indeed, it made him almost physically ill to look at the Crystal
Palace which he visited as a young man from Oxford. His whole life was
devoted to a crusade against the machine and for the ideals of art in every
day objects and art created by the common man himself.
This movement was at the time a healthy one. The minor arts on the
Continent of Europe had become sterile adaptations by indifferent crafts
men of Classical and Baroque forms. Morris had real ideas of simplicity
and good workmanship which have their influence even at present. He and
his followers revolutionized design in the minor arts toward simplicity and
originality, although Morris himself believed that he was reviving the
Gothic style.
The English Arts and Crafts Movement reached its heights in the '90s
in the work of Voysey, Macintosh and Baillie Scott, but was not acknowl
edged as a modern movement until it had been transplanted to the Con
tinent, where it thrived in Vienna and Brussels under the leadership of such
men as Josef Hoffmann and Henry van der Velde. Indeed one phase of the
Arts and Crafts Movement on the Continent, characterized by curvilinear
and naturalistic ornament, may even he called a style: the Art Nouveau
(Fig. c).
Drill Press, pre-Civil War American. Now on Whitworth Drill Press, designed by Sir Joseph
display at the New York Museum of Science Whitworth in the middle of the nineteenth cen
& Industry.
tury. Now on display at the New York Museum
of Science & Industry.
Classical architecture in machine design, typical Straightforward machine design by the father
of the mid-nineteenth century. This false art of modern machine tool building. The aesthetic
drove William Morris and his followers to the possibilities of these simple lines, entirely
refuge of medievalistic handicraft. ignored by Whi (worth's contemporaries, are
only today being realized.
The Twentieth Century.
As in architecture it was only after the War that designers realized the
possibility of beauty in the construction of machines. In Germany particu
larly the post-war generation prided itself on achieving a mechanistic age
and on designing the proper utensils for living in it. This was most clearly
expressed in the Bauhaus School at Weimar under the leadership of Walter
Gropius. In spite of a cubist aesthetic and much left over craft spirit, the
movement was more and more toward machine-like simplicity. It was here,
for instance, that Marcel Breuer first developed the now ubiquitous tubular
steel chair. The movement in Germany has been more and more against
Kunstgewerbe—Arts and Crafts —until the modern expositions of what we
call industrial art are pract
ically free from that tradition.
The situation in America has
been somewhat special. The
Arts and Crafts developments
in Europe have affected us less,
whereas the tradition of ma
chine construction has been
purer and stronger. Our pre
Fig. c. cision instruments especially
Silver Bowl, Henry van de Velde, designer, ca. 1900
An example of the curvilinear Art Nouveau at its best. This was
have led the world (Nos. 289
developed on the Continent
ment.
out of the English Arts and Crafts Move
The work of designers like van de Velde was as important in to 313). But our minor arts
the development of modern machine art as technical improvements like
Whitworth's. have suffered from imitation of
second-hand European designs.
In 1900 Louis Tiffany was the only designer whose work was independent
and known outside America. For the most part we inherited the worst of
the English Arts and Crafts Movement and the worst of the Art Nouveau
style, the worst of the Viennese Kunstgewerbe.
In the '20 s we received a fresh wave of foreign influence from France.
Though France herself was influenced from central Europe, the Paris Expo
sition of Decorative Arts of 1925, with its neo-classic trappings and bizarre
ornament, made a strong impression on our designers. The problem in
America has not been the conflict against a strong handicraft tradition but
rather against a "modernistic" French machine-age aesthetic.
Besides the French Decorative movement in the '20's there developed
in America a desire for "styling" objects for advertising. Styling a com
mercial object gives it more "eye-appeal" and therefore helps sales. Prin-
ciples such as "streamlining" often receive homage out of all proportion to
their applicability.
Conscious design and the development in machine building have fused
and the twentieth century restores the art of making machines and useful
objects to its place, as a technic of making rapidly, simply and well the use
ful objects of current life.
The Scope of the Exhibition.

The Exhibition contains machines, machine parts, scientific instruments
and objects useful in ordinary life. There are no purely ornamental objects;
the useful objects were, however, chosen for their aesthetic quality. Some
will claim that usefulness is more important than beauty, or that usefulness
makes an object beautiful. This Exhibition has been assembled from the
point of view that though usefulness is an essential, appearance has at least
as great a value.
The Exhibition cannot be exhaustive. The very number of useful
objects and machines made it impossible even to cover the whole field in
making the choices. Exigencies of space prohibited many large items.
Inaccessibility prevented choosing items locally distributed in the Far and
and Middle West. Yet the Exhibition tries to be representative. Some fields,
the kitchen and the laboratory, for example, are more fully present than
others. This is because the nineteenth century did not consider these objects
worthy of decorative treatment.
For the convenience of the reader and the visitor to the Exhibition,
the list of objects is divided according to use into six categories.
1. Industrial units: Machines and machine parts: springs, insulators,
cable sections, propeller blades, etc.
2. Household and office equipment: Sink, furnace, bathroom cabinets,
dishwasher, carpet sweeper and business machines.
3. Kitchenware
4. House furnishings and accessories: Objects used in daily 'life: table
ware, vases and bowls, smoking accessories, lighting fixtures, and furniture.
5. Scientific instruments : Precision, optical, drafting and surveying in
struments.
6. Laboratory glass and porcelain: Beakers, hydrometer jars, petri
dishes and boiling flasks.
P. J.
SHORT LIST OF BOOKS
Historical :
Day, Lewis F. Of William Morris and his work. London, Virtue, 1899.
Osthaus, Karl Ernst. Van de Velde. Hagen i. W., Folkwang-Verlag, 1920. (Die neue
Baukunst I)
Popp, J. Deutsches Warenbuch, herausgegeben von der Diirerbund-

Werkbund Genossenschaft. Kriegsausgabe. Munich, D.B.W.B.,
1915.
Gropius, Walter. Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar 1919-1923 Walter Gropius and

others. Weimar-Munich, Bauhausverlag, n.d.
Contemporary :
Gropius, Walter, and Neue Arbeiten der Bauhauswerkstatten. Munich, Langan 1925.
Moholy-Nagy, L., ed. (Bauhausbiicher 7)
Pfleiderer, Wolfgang, Die Form ohne Ornament: Werkbundausstellung 1924. Stutt

in trod. gart, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1924.
(Biicher der Form I)
Le Corbusier. L'art decoratif d'aujourd'hui. Paris, Cres, n.d.
Kollmann, Franz. Schonheit der Technik. Munich, Langen, 1928.
Vogt, Bichard. Der neue Markt: Standardartikel aus der industriellen Pro-
duktion. Berlin, VDI-Verlag, 1931.
DIVISIONS OF THE EXHIBITION
1. Industrial units
2. Household and office equipment
3. Kitchen ware
4. House furnishings and accessories
5. Scientific instruments
6. Laboratory glass and porcelain
Within each division the objects are listed according to use.
Listing of each object is as follows: Name of the object

Name of the manufacturer
Name of the designer
Price
Unless otherwise specified the object may be purchased from the manufacturer.
An asterisk before a catalog number indicates that the work is illustrated by a plate which
bears the same number.
1. INDUSTRIAL UNITS
*1. Bearing spring 115. Steel channel sections
American Steel & Wire Co. Scully Steel Products Co.
Subsidiary United States Steel Corp. Subsidiary United States Steel Corp.
*2. Section of spring 19. Steel rail sections
American Steel & Wire Co. Scully Steel Products Co.
3. Air brake spring 20. Bare concentric strand of electrical cable

American Steel & Wire Co. American Steel & Wire Co.
21. Bare sector strand of electrical cable
4. Railroad car spring American Steel & Wire Co.
American Steel & Wire Co. Subsidiary United States Steel Corp.
*5. Typewriter carriage spring 22. Hollow conductor of an electrical cable
American Steel & Wire Co.
23. Lock coil cable
*6. Motor spring American Steel & Wire Co.
24. Submarine power cable
7. Clock spring American Steel & Wire Co.
Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. Subsidiary United States Steel Corp.
8. Bumper ring for electric refrigerator 25. Armored submarine power cable
9. Clutch spring *26. Section of wire rope " in diameter
10. Grease cup spring 27. Cross-sections of unusual wire shapes
11. Fine wire spring 28. Ordinary rail bond
12. Coil of strip stainless steel 29. Third rail bond
13. Steel balls for ball bearings 30. Chain of rigid type insulators 12 " in diameter
S K F Industries Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co.
14. Polished small steel bearings 31. Type PN grey strain insulator
Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co.
15. Carnegie beam sections 32. Ball and socket suspension insulator
Scully Steel Products Co. Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co.
33. Apparatus type insulator
16. Standard beam sections Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co.
Scully Steel Products Co.
Subsidiary United States Steel Corp. 34. Porcelain wall bushing
Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co.
17. Steel T sections
Scully Steel Products Co. 35. Apparatus type insulator valve
Subsidiary United States Steel Corp. Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co.
£
INDUSTRIAL UNITS—Continued
36. Steel car wheel with axle and rail 46. Steel gears
Carnegie Steel Co. Atlantic Gear Works
47. Stainless steel wing rib for aeroplane, shot-
37. Rectangular, oval and streamlined tubes of welded
aluminum Fleetwings, Inc.
48. Automobile hub cap
38. Stainless steel tubing sections American Sheet & Tin Plate Co.
National Tube Company Subsidiary United States Steel Corp.
49. Automobile pistons
39. Large boat propeller, iron Aluminum Company of America
Sulbvan Shipyards, Inc. *50. Self-aligning ball bearing
SKF Industries
40. Boat propeller, bronze
Electric Boat Co. 51. Automobile headlamps
Ford Motor Co.
*41. Outboard propeller
Aluminum Company of America 52. Circular wood-cutting cross-cut saw
Henry Disston & Sons, Inc.
42. Aeroplane propeller
Hamilton-Standard Propeller Corp. 53. Plastering trowel, stainless steel
Rough forged blades, Aluminum Com Henry Disston & Sons, Inc.
pany of America
*54. Gasoline pump
43. Radiator tubes with aluminum fins Standard Oil Co. of Ohio
55. Welded ball of Enduro stainless steel
44. Arco convector Sholes Inc., New York
American Radiator Co.
56. Switchboard
45. Murray radiator Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co.
American Radiator Co. Lent by Clyde-M allory Line
2. HOUSEHOLD AND OFFICE EQUIPMENT

*57. Lavatory panel of the Arco Panel Unit Sys *61. Niedecken mixer faucet
tem, equipped with special tubular Hoffmann & Billings Mfg. Co.
fittings $25.00. Henry Stein, 50 Cliff St., N. Y.
The Accessories Co., Inc. Division of
American Radiator Co. *62. Flush valve
George Sakier, designer Scovill Mfg. Co. Plumbers' Brass Goods
Panel: $60.00; Standard Sanitary lava Division
tory: $50.00. Licensed plumbers Licensed plumbers
58. Special medicine cabinet with sliding mirror *63. Electrol-Kewanee heating unit, model 10
door Electrol Inc.
The Accessories Co., Inc. Division of Gerth & Gerth, designers
American Radiator Co. $857.00
George Sakier, designer
$75.00 *64. Electrochef range, model B-2
Electromaster Inc., Detroit, Michigan
59. Recess supply cabinet Emil Piron, designer
Conant Bros. Co. $110.00
$140.00
*65. Streamline Monel metal sink
60. Mirror The International Nickel Co., Inc.
Conant Bros. Co. Gustav Jensen, designer
$19.00 $193.50. Licensed plumbers
HOUSEHOLD AND OFFICE EQUIPMENT —
*66. Electric plate warmer, White House Line 80. Cafex
Janes & Kirtland, Inc. The Silex Co.
$100.00. Department stores $2.95. Department and hardware stores
67. Thermotainer, roll warmer *81. Door knob and lock
Waters-Genter Co. Division of McGraw P. & F. Corbin
Electric Co. Howe & Lescaze, designers
$385.00. Tumbridge Sales Corp., New $14.75
York
68. Broom closet, White House Line, Small 82. Door knob and lock
House model P. & F. Corbin
Janes & Kirtland, Inc. $15.00
$33.75. Department stores
83. Loose joint hinges
69. Cupboard and drawer base unit with Monel P. & F. Corbin
metal counter $4.50 a pair
Janes & Kirtland, Inc.
$33.85. Department stores 84. Olive hinges
P. & F. Corbin
70. Exhaust fan $8.15 a pair
Department and hardware stores *85. Yale Junior Lock
Yale & Towne Mfg. Co.
*71. Fay electric floor machine, Diamond model 60f£. Hardware stores
The Fay Co.
$65.00. Department, furniture and hard
ware stores *87. Dictaphone, model 12
Dictaphone Corp.
*72. Hamilton Beach vacuum cleaner, model 8 Stanford Briggs, designer
Hamilton Beach Mfg. Co. Subsidiary $200.00
Scovill Mfg. Co.
$34.75. Department, furniture and hard *88. National cash register, model 1934
ware stores The National Cash Register Co.
$325.00
*73. Silver Streak carpet sweeper
Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co. 89. Tulip drinking cup dispenser, equipped with
$5.00. Department, furniture and hard aluminum tube for airplane, railroad
ware stores and steamship service
Lily-Tulip Cup Corp.
74. The Conover electric dishwasher $3.00
The Conover Co.
$160.00. Department stores 90. Tulip soda cup dispenser
*75. Health scale number 711 Lily-Tulip Cup Corp.
Hanson Scale Co. $6.85
$12.95. Department and hardware stores
*91. York round door chest, model 480
*76. Toastmaster, automatic electric toaster York Safe and Lock Co.
W aters-Genter Co. Division of McGraw
Electric Co. 92. Grain of wheat lamp
$85.00. Tumbridge Sales Corp., N. Y. Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co.
*77. Wafllemaster, automatic electric waffle
baker 93. Automobile tail-light lamp
Waters-Genter Co. Division of McGraw Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co.
Electric Co.
$85.00. Tumbridge Sales Corp., N. Y. 94. Automobile head-light lamp
*78. Range, BG-1, with 4 glass coffee machines
The Silex Co.
$56.95. E. B. Latham & Co., New York 95. 10 W. 5-11 lamp
79. Teaket
The Silex Co. 96. 100 W. 7-8 lamp
$1 .25. Department and hardware stores Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co.
HOUSEHOLD AND OFFICE EQUIPMENT —Continued
97. 300 W. T-10 lamp 100. 1000 W. G-40 lamp
98. 500 W. T-20 lamp 101. 5000 W. bipost base lamp
99. 250 W. G-30 lamp 102. 10,000 W. lamp
3. KITCHENWARE
105. Wear-Ever steam jacketed kettle *117. Crusader hotel ladles
The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co. Lalance & Grosjean Alfg. Co.
$236.00 $1.08 to $4.45
106. Stock pot, Staybrite nonoxyd metalware 118. Wear-Ever bakers' mixing bowl
L. D. Cahn Co. The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co.
$47.00 $4.85
107. Stock pots, rustless steel *119. Crusader bakers' bowls

Polar Ware Co. Lalance & Grosjean Mfg. Co.
$36.00 to $50.00 $25.00 to $64.75
108. Wear-Ever stock pots *120. Wear-Ever food containers

The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co. The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co.
$6.50 to $12.15 93^ to $3.55. Department stores
109. Bain Marie pots, rustless steel 121. Wear-Ever food bowls
Polar Ware Co. The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co.
$2.30 to $6.60 50 e to 65 c. Department stores
110. Hotel pan, rustless steel 122. Crusader pail
Polar Ware Co. Lalance & Grosjean Mfg. Co.
$5.10 $12.53. Department stores
111. Wear-Ever hotel saute pans 123. Crusader malted milk shaker
The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co. Lalance & Grosjean Mfg. Co.
$3.30 to $7.45 $4.15. Department stores
112. Crusader hotel sauce pans
Lalance & Grosjean Mfg. Co. 124. Solid ladle, Staybrite nonoxyd metalware
$6.70 to $25.00 L. D. Cahn Co.
$2.25
*113. Crusader hotel sauce pots
Lalance & Grosjean Mfg. Co. 125. Dipper
$14.55 to $31.65 Polar Ware Co.
$7.50
114. Sauce pan, Staybrite nonoxyd metalware
L. D. Cahn Co. 126. Apple cup
$10.00 Polar Ware Co.
$1.60
115. Coffee urn cylinder, Staybrite nonoxyd
metalware 127. Frying pans
L. C. Cahn Co. Polar Ware Co.
$27.00 $5.00 and $6.00
116. Coffee urn cup, rustless steel 128. Frying pan, Staybrite nonoxyd metalware
Polar Ware Co. L. D. Cahn Co.
$6.00 $4.25
KITCHENWARE —Continued
129. French fryers *142. Wear-Ever griddle

Revere Copper & Brass Inc. Rome The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co.
Manufacturing Division $3.95. Department stores
$1.80 and $2.00. Department stores
*143. Beverage tumblers, rustless steel
130. Skillet Polar Ware Co.
Revere Copper & Brass Inc. Rome 90^
Manufacturing Division
$2.00. Department stores *144. Bathroom tumblers, rustless steel
Polar Ware Co.
*131. Stewpans, black enamel $1.75
Imported by Markt & Hammacher
75 ^ to $1.35. Lewis & Conger *145. Imported cook's knives
Lent by Lewis & Conger
$2.34 and $3.25
*132. Saucepans
Revere Copper & Brass Inc. Rome *146. Imported cook's fork
Manufacturing Division Lent by Lewis & Conger
$1.80 to $2.20. Department stores $1.88
133. Mixing bowls, black enamel *147. Imported slicers

Imported by Markt & Hammacher Lent by Lewis & Conger
$2.15. Lewis & Conger $2.00 to $4.50
134. Mixing bowls 148. Square coffee jars

Polar Ware Co. Owens-Illinois Glass Co.
$3.00 to $8.00
*149. Nestrite paper containers
Lily-Tulip Cup Corp.
*135. Mixing bowls
Revere Copper & Brass Inc. Rome 150. Nestrite paper tubs
Manufacturing Division Lily-Tulip Cup Corp.
90 £ to $1.30. Department stores
*151. Squat Nestrite containers
136. Crusader cup Lily-Tulip Cup Corp.
Lalance & Grosjean Mfg. Co.
Hospital Supplies
*137. Wear-Ever round cake pans
The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co. *152. Needle box, rustless steel
30 to 45 i. Department stores Polar Ware Co.
$3.70
138. Wear-Ever ring cake mold
The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co. 153. Serum cup
$1.00. Department stores The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co.
20 i
139. Wear-Ever fruit press
The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co. 154. Sputum cup with hinged cover, Staybrite
93 fk Department stores nonoxyd metalware
L. D. Cahn Co.
$3.00
140. Wear-Ever tea kettle
The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co. *155. Graduated measure, Staybrite nonoxyd
Lurelle V. A. Guild, designer metalware
$2.95. Department stores L. D. Cahn Co.
$5.50
141. Wear-Ever drip coffee pot
The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co. 156. Sponge bowl, rustless steel
Lurelle V. A. Guild, designer Polar Ware Co.
$1.65. Department stores $2.00
4. HOUSE FURNISHINGS AND ACCESSORIES
157. Dinner knives, Covington Plain pattern 166. Teaspoons, Dolly Madison pattern
The Gorham Co. The Gorham Co.
A reproduction of an old English design b\ Original early American design by A. H.
W. C. Codnian Staf
$41.00 per dozen. Silversmiths and de $21.00 per dozen. Silversmiths and
partment stores department stores
158. Dinner forks, Covington Plain pattern *167. Dessert spoons, Dolly Madison pattern
A reproduction of an old English design Original early American design by A. H.
by W. C. Codman Staf
$50.00 per dozen. Silversmiths and de $46.00 per dozen. Silversmiths and de
partment stores partment stores
159. Teaspoons, Covington Plain pattern 168. Dessert knives, Dolly Madison pattern
*160. Dessert spoons, Covington Plain pattern *169. Dessert forks, Dolly Madison pattern
*161. Dessert knives, Covington Plain pattern 170. Coffee spoons, Dolly Madison pattern
A reproduction of an old English design by Original early American design by A. H.
W. C. Codman Staf
*162. Dessert forks, Covington Plain pattern
The Gorham Co. *171. Windsor teaspoons, chromium
A reproduction of an old English design Lent by Lewis & Conger
by W. C. Codman 25 p each
$35.00 per dozen. Silversmiths and de
partment stores *172. Windsor dessert spoons, chromium
163. Coffee spoons, Covington Plain pattern 42^ each
The Gorham Co.
A reproduction of an old English design *173. Windsor table spoons, chromium
by W. C. Codman Lent by Lewis & Conger
$14.00 per dozen. Silversmiths and 48 each
department stores
174. Crystal bread and butter plate
164. Dinner knives, Dolly Madison pattern Fostoria Glass Co.
The Gorham Co. $4.00 per dozen. Department stores and
Original early American design by A. H. gift shops
Staf
$49.00 per dozen. Silversmiths and 175. Crystal salad plate
department stores Fostoria Glass Co.
$5.00 per dozen. Department stores and
165. Dinner forks, Dolly Madison pattern gift shops
The Gorham Co.
Original early American design by A. H. 176. Crystal dinner plate
Staf Fostoria Glass Co.
$52.00 per dozen. Silversmiths and de $7.00 per dozen. Department stores and
partment stores gift shops
HOUSE FURNISHINGS AND ACCESSORIES —Continued
177. Crystal service plate 190. Whisky glasses
Fostoria Glass Co. Fostoria Glass Co.
$15.00 per dozen. Department stores and $3.50 per dozen. Department stores and
gift shops gift shops
*178. White porcelain bread and butter plate 191. Baccarat ale glass
Lenox Inc. Lent by Lewis & Conger
$13.25 per dozen. Department stores and $8.50 per dozen
gift shops
*179. White porcelain luncheon plate 192. Baccarat ale glass

Lenox Inc. Lent by Lewis & Conger
gift shops
193. Baccarat champagne tumbler
*180. White porcelain dinner plate Lent by Lewis & Conger
Lenox Inc. $5.50 per dozen
gift shops 194. Baccarat claret glass
*181. White porcelain service plate $9.75 per dozen
Lenox Inc.
gift shops 195. Baccarat cocktail glass
182. White porcelain sandwich or cake plate $9.75 per dozen
Lenox Inc.
$3.50. Department stores and gift shops 196. Baccarat cordial glass
183. Tumblers, crystal with sham bottoms $8.75 per dozen
Fostoria Glass Co.
$3.50 per dozen. Department stores and 197. Baccarat goblet
gift shops Lent by Lewis & Conger
$14.75 per dozen
184. Tumblers, crystal with sham bottoms
Fostoria Glass Co. 198. Baccarat sherry glass
$4.50 per dozen. Department stores and Lent by Lewis & Conger
gift shops $10.50 per dozen
*185. Tumblers, blue glass
Fostoria Glass Co. 199. Baccarat tumbler
$2.50 per dozen. Department stores and Lent by Lewis & Conger
gift shops $7.50 per dozen
*186. Tumblers, burgundy glass 200. Baccarat whisky glass

Fostoria Glass Co. Lent by Lewis & Conger
gift shops
187. Liqueur tumblers, crystal with sham bot 201. Baccarat whisky and soda glass
toms Lent by Lewis & Conger
Fostoria Glass Co. $6.25 per dozen
gift shops 202. Holland glass brandy inhalers
Lent by Ovington's
188. Cocktail glass $18.00 per dozen
Corning Glass Works —Steuben Division
Walter Dorwin Teague, designer 203. Cocktail glasses
$2.00 each. Steuben Glass, Inc., 748 Fifth Lent by Ovington's
Avenue
204. Tumblers
189. Old-Fashioned cocktail glass Lent by Ovington's
Walter Dorwin Teague, designer 205. Martini mixer
$2.00 each. Steuben Glass, Inc., 748 Fifth Lent by Carol Stupell
Avenue $3.50
HOUSE FURNISHINGS AND ACCESSORIES—Continued
206. Condiment bottles 222. Tray, copper
Russel Wright Studio Chase Brass & Copper Co., Inc. Specialty
Russel Wright, designer Sales Division
' ant $2.00 each. Department stores and gift Walter Von Nessen, designer
shops $4.00. Department stores and gift shops
*207. Salad bowl, wood *223. Flower bowl, copper
$3.30 each. Department stores and gift Walter Von Nessen, designer
*208. Rerry bowl, wood
Russel Wright Studio 224. Pretzel bowl, copper
Russel Wright, designer Chase Brass & Copper Co., Inc. Specialty
$3.00 each. Department stores and gift Sales Division
*209. Small berry bowls, wood *225. Pretzel bowl, chromium

$1.60 each. Department stores and gift $2.00. Department stores and gift shops
shops
226. Bowl
210. Raccarat fingerbowl and plate Corning Glass Works —-Steuben Division
Lent by Lewis & Conger Frederick Carder, designer
$33.00 per dozen $6.00. Steuben Glass, Inc., 748 Fifth Ave.
*211. Cream jars *227. Bowl
Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Corning Glass Works — Steuben Division
Walter Dorwin Teague, designer
*213. Oblong perfume bottles Steuben Glass, Inc., 748 Fifth Avenue
Owens-Illinois Glass Co.
*228. Bowl
*214. Taper round bottles Corning Glass Works —Steuben Division
Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Walter Dorwin Teague, designer
*215. Jar with cover $4.25. Steuben Glass, Inc., 748 Fifth
Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Avenue
216. Wide-mouthed French squares 229. Large crystal plate, 16" diameter
Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Fostoria Glass Co.
$3.50. Department stores and gift shops
217. Chromium tray
The Bingham Stamping & Tool Co. 230. Bowl, wood
$1.75. R. Aberli Jr., 225 Fifth Avenue Russel Wright Studio
Russel Wright, designer
218. Copper tray $5.00. Department stores and gift shops
The Bingham Stamping & Tool Co.
$1.50. R. Aberli Jr., 225 Fifth Avenue
231. Copper bowls
219. Serving tray, chromium Revere Copper & Brass Inc., Rome Mfg.
Chase Brass & Copper Co., Inc. Specialty Division
Sales Division 50c and 75p. Department stores and gift
$6.00. Department stores and gift shops shops
220. Serving trays, copper *232. White porcelain vases
Chase Brass & Copper Co., Inc. Specialty Lenox Inc.
Sales Division $1.50, $2.50, $3.00. Department stores
$6.00. Department stores and gift shops and gift shops
*221. Tray, chromium
Chase Brass & Copper Co., Inc. Specialty
Sales Division
Walter Von Nessen, designer
T Crystal vases
Fostoria Glass Co.
$2.50 and $3.00. Department
gift shops
stores and
234. Vase, square 247. Dunhill's Bruyere straight grain pipe
Corning Glass Works — Steuben Division Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc.
Frederick Carder, designer $50.00. Dunhill shops, tobacco shops and
$3.50. Steuben Glass, Inc., 748 Fifth Ave. department stores
*235. Vase, spherical *248. Meerschaum pipe
Corning Glass Works — Steuben Division Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc.
Walter Dorwin Teague, designer $25.00. Dunhill shops, tobacco shops and
$8.50. Steuben Glass, Inc., 748 Fifth Ave. department stores
236. Vase, rectangular
Corning Glass Works —Steuben Division *249. Tall wafer cigarette lighter
Walter Dorwin Teague, designer Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc.
$5.00. Steuben Glass, Inc., 748 Fifth Ave. $10.00. Dunhill shops, tobacco shops and
department stores
*237. Vases
Corning Glass Works — Steuben Division 250. Giant cigarette lighter
Walter Dorwin Teague, designer Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc.
$2.75 to $3.75. Steuben Glass, Inc., 748 $15.00. Dunhill shops, tobacco shops and
Fifth Avenue department stores
*238. Black glass vases *251. Ball cigarette lighter

Corning Glass Works —Steuben Division Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc.
Walter Dorwin Teague, designer $15.00. Dunhill shops, tobacco shops and
$2.75 to $3.75. Steuben Glass, Inc., department stores
748 Fifth Avenue
252. Cigar case
239. Plates, chromium and copper Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc.
Chase Brass & Copper Co., Inc. Specialty $22.50. Dunhill shops, tobacco shops and
Sales Division department stores
Department stores and gift shops
*253. Bomb Rumidor
240. Centerpiece Distillers Products Corp.
Corning Glass Works —Steuben Division $7.00. Department stores and tobacco
Walter Dorwin Teague, designer shops
$30.00. Steuben Glass, Inc., 748 Fifth
Avenue *254. Lektrolite cigarette lighter, Cylinda model
"B", sterling silver
*241. Ash tray Platinum Products Co.
Lent by Arimdell Clarke Ltd. $12.00. Department stores and gift shops
$2.50
*255. Lektrolite cigarette lighter and pencil, ster
*242. Ashtray ling silver
J Corning Glass Works —Steuben Division

Frederick Carder, designer
$7.50. Steuben Glass, Inc., 748 Fifth Ave.
Platinum Products Co.
*256. Cigarette box
*243. Ash tray set Corning Glass Works —Steuben Division
Fostoria Glass Co. Frederick Carder, designer
$6.00 per dozen. Department stores and $4.50. Steuben Glass, Inc., 748 Fifth Ave.
gift shops
*257. Inkstand and calendar
244. Ash bowl, stainless steel I. S. Pertofsky
Platinel Inc. Howe & Lescaze, designers
$9.50 $32.00. Howe & Lescaze, architects
258. Braquette picture frame, portrait type
245. Ash tray, copper Design Engineers, Inc.
Revere Copper & Brass Inc. Rome Mfg. Nathan George Horwitt, designer
Division $2.50. Eastman Kodak stores
25)!i. Department stores and gift shops
259. Braquette picture frame, standard type
246. Ash tray, chromium Design Engineers, Inc.
Kurt Versen Nathan George Horwitt, designer
$1.60 $2.00. Eastman Kodak stores
260. Bomb flashlight ,27JL-P6ndant sphere lighting fixtures
Chase Brass & Copper Co., Inc. Specialty Kurt Versen
Sales Division $15.00 to $34.00
*276. Tubular wall bracket
265. Luxmir Shaving Mirror Kurt Versen
Lent by Ovington's $22.00
$12.50
*277. Wall bracket light with cylindrical bowl
*266. Imported chromium scent bottles in leather Kurt Versen
case $17.00
Lent by Saks-Fifth Avenue 278. Wall bracket light with hemispherical bowl
$7.50 Kurt Versen
$19.00
267. Man's fitted case
Lent by Saks-Fifth Avenue *279. Chair
$6.50 Thonet Bros., Inc.
Marcel Breuer, designer
*268. Billiard balls $20.50
Lent by Saks-Fifth Avenue
$7.50 *280. Chair
Thonet Bros., Inc.
*269. Silverice (for chilling drinks) Le Corbusier, designer
Lent by Saks-Fifth Avenue $63.00
$2.50 for box of six
*281. Nest tables
Thonet Bros., Inc.
*270. Electric clock $28.50
Herman Miller Clock Co.
Gilbert Rohde, designer *282. Beta chair
$16.50. Department stores and gift shops The Howell Co. (Brown & Nightingale,
New York distributors)
*271. Westclox handbag watch, bakelite case Nathan George Horwitt, designer
Western Clock Co. $30.00. Department and furniture stores
De Yaulchier & Blow, designers
$2.95. Department stores, gift shops, 283. Chair, number 444
drug stores The Howell Co. (Brown & Nightingale,
New York distributors)
*272. Magnetric clock $40.00. Department and furniture stores
Jaeger Watch Co.
Jaeger Watch Co., designers, in collabora 284. Lounge chair, number 439
tion with the Art and Color section of The Howell Co. (Brown & Nightingale,
the Fisher Body Corp. for General New York distributors)
Motors $50.00. Department and furniture stores
285. Chair, number 477
*273. Desk lamp e Howell Co. (Brown & Nightingale,
Kurt Versen New York distributors)
Howe & Lescaze, designers $30.00. Department and furniture stores
$31.00
286. Chair, number 441
274. Ceiling fixture with white opal glass bowl The Howell Co. (Brown & Nightingale,
Kurt Versen New York distributors)
$14.00 $20.00. Department and furniture stores
5. SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
288. Johansson third measuring instrument, used 303. Hardened steel straight edge number 527
in 1898 Brown & Sharpe of New York, Inc.
Ford Motor Co. (Standard Gage Co.) $1.00. Hardware stores
Louis C. Eitzen Co., New York
304. Hardened cast steel try squares number 540
*289. Vernier depth gauge number 600 Brown & Sharpe of New York, Inc.
Brown & Sharpe of New York, Inc. $3.60 to $34.50. Hardware stores
$16.25. Hardware stores
305. Adjustable square complete number 554
290. Rule depth gauge number 616 Brown & Sharpe of New York, Inc.
Brown & Sharpe of New York, Inc. $4.20. Hardware stores
306. Graduated steel square number 544
*291. Graduated rod depth gauge number 614 Brown & Sharpe of New York, Inc.
*307. Diemakers' square complete number 552
*292. Plain English micrometer number 8 Brown & Sharpe of New York, Inc.
308. Indicator number 738
Brown & Sharpe of New York, Inc.
*293. Inside micrometer number 263 $10.00. Hardware stores
$7.50. Hardware stores 309. Speed indicator number 748
*291. Outside firm joint caliper number 821 $6.75. Hardware stores
60 cents. Hardware stores *310. Vest pocket speed indicator number 746
*295. Caliper square with adjusting screw number $1.50. Hardware stores
560
Brown & Sharpe of New York, Inc. *311. 29 degrees worm thread tool gauge number
$10.20. Hardware stores-' 577
296. Caliper rule number 391 $7.50. Hardware stores
$5.00. Hardware stores 312. Dial gauge number 726
297. Slide caliper rule number 385
Brown & Sharpe of New York, Inc. *313. Bevel protractor number 493
$2.50. Hardware stores Brown & Sharpe of New York, Inc.
298. Pocket slide caliper rule number 388
Brown & Sharpe of New York, Inc. *314. Laboratory microscope ESA-105
$4.00. Hardware stores Carl Zeiss, Inc.
$159.00
299. Flexible stainless steel rule number 356
Brown & Sharpe of New York, Inc. 315. Research microscope, model L
$573.80 (with objectives)
300. Narrow tempered steel rule number 303
Brown & Sharpe of New York, Inc. 316. Binocular microscope XB
90^. Hardware stores Carl Zeiss, Inc.
$183.05
301. Rule with slide number 380
Brown & Sharpe of New York, Inc. 317. Iris cylinder diaphragm
$6.50
302. Hardened and ground steel paralleljiumber
920 318. Abbe apertometer
Brown & Sharpe of New York, Inc. Carl Zeiss, Inc.
$4.00. Hardware stores $52.00
SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS —Continued
319. Short magnifier lamp *335. Juerst ebulliometer
Carl Zeiss, Inc. Eimer & Amend
$13.15 $75.00
320. Plankton vessel *336. MacMichael viscosimeter

Carl Zeiss, Inc. Eimer & Amend
$2.00 $210.00
321. Simplified attachable mechanical stage 337. Small vertex refractionometer

Carl Zeiss, Inc. Carl Zeiss, Inc.
$18.00 $115.00
338. Demonstration attachment for cystoscopes
322. Ramsden screw micrometer Carl Zeiss, Inc.
Carl Zeiss, Inc. $90.00
$44.00
339. Polarimeter with circular scale
323. Focusing microscope for photo-engravers Carl Zeiss, Inc.
$55.00
*340. Pocket polarimeter
324. Folding aplanatic magnifiers Carl Zeiss, Inc.
$8.15 each
341. Triple mirror for light signals
325. Aplanatic magnifiers Carl Zeiss, Inc.
Carl Zeiss, Inc.
$6.90 each; lens ring and handle, $1.90 342. Prism
Holophane Co.
*326. Diaphot
Carl Zeiss, Inc. 343. Controlenses
$2.20 Holophane Co.
327. Stereoscope *344. Adjustable curve number 2160

Carl Zeiss, Inc. Eugene Dietzgen Co., Inc.
$40.00 $2.25
328. Vertical telescope view finder (for Contax *345. Adjustable curve number 2161 A
camera) Eugene Dietzgen Co., Inc.
$15.40
346. Wood blackboard outfit: arc, protractor, T-
*329. Telescope, 80 mm. square, and triangle
$1,166.25 $5.70
330. Hand spectroscope, model A *347. Protractor, nickel silver

$18.00 $41.80
*331. Cube of didymium glass *348. Protractor, steel

$5.00 $10.00
332. Blood sugar colorimeter 349. Slide rule

$27.50 $10.55
*350. Pocket sight compass
*333. Sugar and oil refractometer Eugene Dietzgen Co., Inc.
$211.20
*351. Short & Mason miner's compass
334. Pulfrich refractometer Taylor Instrument Companies
Carl Zeiss, Inc. $40.00. Department, optical and hard
$458.40 ware stores
SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS—Continued
*352. Brass plumb bob *360. Dietometer
Eugene Dietzgen Co., Inc. Eimer & Amend
$1.90 $9.00
353. Mercury plumb bob number 790 *361. Torsion prescription scale number 285
Brown & Sharpe of New York, Inc. The Torsion Balance Co.
$3.60. Hardware stores $80.00
362. Micro max recording potentiometer
354. DX Projection type ammeter Leeds & Northrup Co., Philadelphia
Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. $250.00
355. DX Projection type rectox voltmeter 363. Brown indicating flowmeter number 2020
Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. The Brown Instrument Co., Philadelphia
$108.75
356. PY-5 a.c. portable voltmeter 364. Altitude barometer
Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. Taylor Instrument Companies
$42.00. Department, optical and hard
357. Stroboscopic clock motor testing board ware stores
Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. *365. Anemometer
Taylor Instrument Companies
358. Light meter $50.00. Department, optical and hard
Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. ware stores
*366 X-ray unit, model "B", stationary type
*359. Dental instruments Bitter Dental Mfg. Co., Inc.
The S. S. White Dental Mfg. Co. $820.00
6. LABORATORY GLASS AND PORCELAIN
*367. Crystallizing dishes 382. Measuring cylinder 500 cc
Coming Glass Works Eimer & Amend
45^ to $1.25. Eimer & Amend $4.25
*368^1Boiling flasks 383. Weighing bottles

V // Corning Glass Works Eimer & Amend
57 to $3.30. Eimer & Amend 30^ to $1.60
369. Boiling flasks with wicker necks 384. Shaking flask

Corning Glass Works Eimer & Amend
$1.35 and $1.55. Eimer & Amend $1.20
370. Erlemeyer flasks 385. B jar

38 ^ to $1.60. Eimer & Amend $8.00
371. Beakers 386. Bell jar and frame

18^ to 50^. Eimer & Amend $16.00
*372. Reagent bottles 387. Generating bottle

65^ to $3.00. Eimer & Amend $2.35
373. Cylindrical jars 388. Culture flask

Corning Glass Works Corning Glass Works
$1.20 to $10.00. Eimer & Amend 65^. Eimer & Amend
*374. Hydrometer jars 389. Roux culture flask

Eimer & Amend Corning Glass Works
40 f: to $2.75 65 j£. Eimer & Amend
*375. Battery jars 390. Roimd bottom boiling flask, 72 litres

$4.70 to $13.25 $25.00. Eimer & Amend
376. Battery jars 391. Solution bottle

Corning Glass Works Corning Glass Works
$1.15 to $2.60. Eimer & Amend $4.00. Eimer & Amend
*377. Petri dishes 392. Watch glass

Eimer & Amend Eimer & Amend
24^ to 70^ 60
378. Moist chambers *393. Scorifiers

Eimer & Amend Eimer & Amend
$1.40 and $1.80 60 ^
*379. Stender dishes *394. Retort
50c. to $2.00 $3.60. Eimer & Amend
380. Flask 500 cc
Eimer & Amend *395. Capsules
$1.85 Coors Porcelain Co.
15^ to 25^. Eimer & Amend
*381. Measuring flask 396. Rings
Eimer & Amend Coors Porcelain Co.
$1.60 $9.95. Eimer & Amend
LABORATORY GLASS AND PORCELAIN—Continued
*397. Dish 400. Jar
Coors Porcelain Co. Coors Porcelain Co.
$1.60. Eimer & Amend $129.00. Eimer & Amend
*398. Beakers .q, Sample oil bottles

Coors Porcelain Co.
55^ to $9.00. Eimer & Amend Owens-Illinois Glass Co.
399. Petri covers 402. Jar and cover

Coors Porcelain Co. Eimer & Amend
15^ and 20 f£. Eimer & Amend $2.25
1. Industrial Units
Illustrations
I
Bearing spring
Section of spring
Typewriter carriage spring and motor spring
Section of wire rope 33^" in diameter

Self-aligning ball bearing
S K F Industries
41
Outboard propeller
ITHVt 1 \x-70
Gasoline pumps
Standard Oil Company of Ohio
2. Household and Office Equipment
Illustrations
>iv% KM#5**Aiiiisic
Electrol-Kewanee heating unit, model 10
Electrol, Inc.
Gerth & Gerth, designers
$857.00
Lavatory panel of the Arco panel unit system, equipped
with special tubular fittings
The Accessories Co., Inc.
Division of American Radiator Co.
George Sakier, designer
Panel: $60.00; Standard Sanitary lavatory: $50.00.
Licensed plumbers
r; "*' r V
Electrochef range, model B-2

Electromaster Inc., Detroit, Michigan
Emil Piron, designer
$110.00
65
Streamline Monel metal sink

The International Nickel Co., Inc.
Gustav Jensen, designer
1.50. Licensed plumbers
66
Electric plate warmer, White House Line

Janes & Kirtland, Inc.
71
Fay electric floor machine, Diamond model Hamilton Beach vacuum cleaner, model 8
The Fay Co. Hamilton Beach Mfg. Co.

Subsidiary Scovill Mfg. Co.
ware stores ware stores
Health scale, number 711
Hanson Scale Co.
$12.95. Department and hardware stores
Silver Streak carpet sweeper

Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co.
ware stores
Flush valve
Scovill Mfg. Co.
Plumbers' Brass Goods Division
Licensed plumbers
til
Niedecken mixer faucet

Hoffmann & Billings Mfg. Co.
$25.00 Henry Stein, 50 Cliff St.
Wafflemaster, automatic electric waffle baker
Waters-Genter Co.
Division of McGraw Electric Co.
$85.00. Tumbridge Sales Corp.
Toastmaster, automatic electric toaster

Waters-Genter Co.
Division of McGraw Electric Co.
$85.00. Tumbridge Sales Corp.
Dictaphone, model 12
Dictaphone Corp.
$200.00. Dictaphone Sales Corp.
National Cash Register, model 1934

The National Cash Register Co.
$325.00
York round door chest, model 480
York Safe and Lock Co.
Yale junior lock

Yale & Towne Mfg. Co,
600. Hardware stores
711
Range with 4 glass coffee machines

The Silex Co.
$56.95. E. B. Latham & Co.
U1
Door knob and lock

P. & F. Corbin
Howe & Lescaze, designers
$14.75
Kitchenware
Illustrations
Crusader hotel sauce pots
$14.55 to $31.65.
Crusader hotel ladles
$1.08 to $4.45
Crusader bakers" howl

$25.00 to $64.75
Stewpans f
Imported by Markt & Hainmacher
75^ to $1.35. Lewis & Conger
Mixing bowls
Revere Copper & Brass
Inc.
Rome Mfg. Division
90^ to $1.30.
Department stores
Graduated measures,
Staybrite nonoxyd
metalware
L. D. Cahn Co.
mm
Saucepan
Revere Copper & Brass
Inc.
Rome Mf». Division
$1.«0 to $2.20. De
partment stores
Beverage and bathroom tumblers, rustless steel
Polar Ware Co.
90^ and $1.65
Nestrite paper con-

tainers
Lily-Tulip Cup Corp,
145, 147
Imported cooks' knives and slicers

Lewis & Conger
$2.00 to $4.50
Imported cooks' fork

Lewis & Conger
$1.88
Needle box, rustless steel

Polar Ware Co.
$3.70
137
Wear-Ever round cake

pans
The Aluminum
Cooking Utensil Co.
300 to 500
Department stores
140
{
Wear-Ever tea kettle
The Aluminum
Cooking Utensil Co.
Lurelle V. A. Guild,
designer
$2.95. Department
stores
Wear-Ever food containers
The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co.

93^ to $3.55. Department stores
Wear-Ever griddle
The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co.

House Furnishings and Accessories
Illustrations
]«01(i2
Dessert spoons, knives and forks, Covington Plain pattern

The Gorham Co.
A reproduction of an old English design hy \\ . C. Codman

Spoons and knives, $37.00 per dozen; forks, $35.00 per dozen
Silversmiths and department stores
1117, Kill
Dessert spoons and forks,

Dolly Madison pattern
The Gorham Co.

Original early American
design by A. H. Staf
Spoons, $46.00 per dozen;

forks, $44.00 per dozen
Silversmiths and depart

ment stores
185, 188
Tumblers, Burgundy and blue glass

Fostoria Glass Co.
$2.50 per dozen. Department stores and gifl shops
171-178
W indsor chromium teaspoons, dessert spoons and table spoons

25^, 42<j>
and 48^ each
Jar with cover
Owens-Illinois Glass Co,
Oblong perfume bottles
Cream jars and taper round bottles

2.17
Vases
Corning Glass Works — Steuben Division
$2.75 to $3.75. Steuben Glass, Inc., 748 Fifth Avenue
23a
Black glass vases

Corning Glass Works — Steuben
Division
Walter Dorwin Teagne, designer
$2.75 to $3.75. Steuben Glass,
Inc., 748 Fifth Avenue
White porcelain plates
Lenox Inc.
$13.25 to $21.00 per dozen. Department stores and gift shops
White porcelain vase

Lenox Inc.
225
Pretzel bowl, chromium

Chase Brass & Copper Co.,
Inc. Specialty Sales Divi
sion
and gift shops
223
Flower bowl, copper

Chase Brass & Copper Co.,
Inc. Specialty Sales Divi
sion
Walter Von Nessen, de
signer
and gift shops
221
Serving tray, chromium

Chase Brass & Copper Co., Inc. Specialty Sales Division
Walter Von Nessen, designer
235
Spherical vase
W alter Dorwin Teague, designer
$8.50. Steuben Glass, Inc., 748 5th Ave.
2 ©7-2 ©9
Wood salad bowl, berry bowl and small berry bowls

Russel Wright Studio
Kussel Wright, designer
Salad bowl, $3.30; berry bowl, $3.00; small bowls, $1.60 each
228
Bowl
Corning Glass Works — Steuben Division
$4.25. Steuben Glass, Inc., 748 Fifth Avenue
227
Bowl
Corning Glass Works— Steuben Division
$42.00 (with octagonal mirror base)
• Wi& vr - 269
', v>i
Silverice (for chilling
drinks)
#| 'Jfe
»€l
$ Lent by Saks-Fifth
$2.50 for box of six
Avenue
,v ibvgpj h-iw&b-i
i&
Billiard balls
$7.50 in leather box
257
Inkstand and calendar

I. S. Pertofsky
$32.00. Howe & Lescaze, architects
254, 255
Lektrolite Cylinda lighter and Lektrolite pencil

lighter, sterling silver
Platinum Products Co.
Cylinda lighter, $12.00; pencil, $25.00.
Ash tray set
Fostoria Glass Co.
$6.00 per dozen. Department stores and gift shops
Ash tray
Lent by Arnndell Clarke, Ltd.
$2.50
212
Ash tray
Corning Glass Works —
Steuben Division
Frederick Carder,
designer
$7.50. Steuben Glass,
256
Cigarette box
Corning Glass Works —
Steuben Division
Frederick Carder,
designer
$4.50. Steuben Glass,
2411
Meerschaum pipe
Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc.
$25.00. Dunhill shops, tobacco shops and department stores
253
Bomb Rumidor
Distillers Products Corp.
$7.00. Department stores and tobacco shops
Tall wafer lighter and ball lighter
Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc.
Wafer lighter, $10.00; ball lighter, $15.00
Dunhill shops, tobacco shops and department stores
266 HI
Imported chromium scent bottles

$7.50 in black leather case
270
Electric clock
Herman Miller Clock Co.
Gilbert Rohde, designer
272
Magnetric clock
Jaeger Watch Co.
Jaeger Watch Co., designers, in collaboration with the Art and Color Section of the Fisher Body
Corp. for General Motors
Westclox handbag watch, bakelite case

Western Clock Co.
De Vaulchier & Blow, designers
$2.95. Department stores, gift shops,
drug stores
Hi Williams
Wall bracket with cylindrical bowl
Kurt Versen
$17.00
270
Tubular wall bracket

Kurt Versen
$22.00
Desk lamp
Kurt Yersen
$31.00
280
Chair
Thonet Bros., Inc.
Le Corbusier, designer
$63.00
282
Beta chair
The Howell Co. (Brown & Nightingale, New York distributors)
Nathan George Horwitt, designer
$30.00. Department and furniture stores
Nest tables
Thonet Bros., Inc.
$28.50
Chair
Thonet Bros., Inc.
Marcel Breuer, desigi
$20.50
/
'
.
Scientific Instruments
Illustrations
mm.
2!>3
Inside micrometer
For taking internal measurements from
1 to 2 inches
2«9
Vernier depth gauge
For measuring depth with aid of vernier
scale to 1/1000 inch
291
Graduated rod depth gauge for measuring
depth of holes
307
Diemakers' square
For checking included angle of clearance
in making dies
294
Outside firm joint caliper

For obtaining outside measure
ments (used in connection with
scale)
60^. Hardware stores
.113
Bevel protractor
For obtaining angle of bevel
in actual material
Brown & Sharpe of New
York, Inc.
2»2
Plain English micrometer
For measuring thickness, etc.
of steel to 1/1000 inch
York, Inc.
310
Vest pocket speed indicator
To indicate speed of lathes,
shafts of motors, etc.
York, Inc.
295
Caliper square with adjusting
screw
For obtaining inside and outside
measurements to 1/64 and 1/100
inch
Brown & Sharpe of New York,
Inc.
311
29 degrees worm thread tool
gauge
For checking angles of helical
threads
Brown & Sharpe of New York,
. Inc.
' ^ t , -' ' !
MO
Pocket Polarimeter
For ascertaining the concentration of sugar
solutions and solutions of optically active
substances
Carl Zeiss, Inc.
$83.25
333
Sugar and oil refractometer

For measuring the refractive index and the
dispersion of liquids as well as solids
Carl Zeiss, Inc.
$211.20
Laboratory microscope ESA-105
Carl Zeiss, Inc.
$159.00
Telescope, 80 mm
Carl Zeiss, Inc.
$1,166.25
Diaphot
Fxposure indicator for photographers
Carl Zeiss, Inc.
$2.20
Cube of didymium glass

For demonstrating with a spectroscope the shar
absorption bands characteristic of didymium salts
Carl Zeiss, Inc.
$5.00
f *
Pocket sight compass

Eugene Dietzgen Co., Inc.
$8.35
Short & Mason miner's compass

To indicate direction of ore
$40.00. Department, optical and hardware
stores
Protractor
$10.00
Protractor
$41.80
Brass plumb bob
$1.90
Adjustable curve number 2160

$2.25
Adjustable curve number 2161 A
$2.65
Juerst ebulliometer
For ascertaining the alcoholic content
of beverages
Eimer & Amend
Dietometer
For obtaining the weight of
food in preparing diets
Eimer & Amend
$9.00
33tt
MacMichael viscosimeter
For ascertaining the viscosity of fluids
Eimer & Amend
$210.00
Torsion prescription scale number 285
The Torsion Balance Co.
$80.00
Anemometer
For measuring air speeds
$50.00. Department, optical and hardware stores
V?"
Dental instruments
The S. S. White Dental Mfg. Co.
I
X-ray unit, model "B", stationary type
Bitter Dental Mfg. Co., Inc.
$820.00
Laboratory Glass and Porcelain
Illustrations
Measuring flask
Eimer & Amend
$1.60
368
Boiling flasks
Corning Glass Works
57 to $3.30. Eimer & Amend
Stender dishes
Eimer & Amend
Hydrometer jars
Footed cylinders used to float hydrometer,
an instrument which indicates the spe
cific gravity of a solution
Eimer & Amend
40c to $2.75
Petri dishes
Used in growing cultures
Eimer & Amend
Crystallizing dishes
Used in obtaining crystals from saturated solutions by evaporation
Corning Glass Works
45^ to $1.25. Eimer & Amend
Reagent bottles
Corning Glass Works
Scorifiers
Used in assay
ing the metal
lic content of
ores
Eimer &
Amend
Retort
Used in distilling liquids
Corning Glass Works
$3.60. Eimer & Amend
Battery jars
Used in making storage
batteries
Eimer & Amend
$4.70 to $13.25
Beakers
Used for dissolving, drying or boiling solutions
Coors Porcelain Co.
Capsules
Used for drying or incinerating chemicals
Coors Porcelain Co.
150 to 250. Eimer & Amend
397
Dish
Coors Porcelain Co.
$1.60. Eimer & Amend
v -' ' I ..
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The books published by the Museum of Modern Art in connection with its numerous exhibitions form a
concise library of living art, painting, sculpture, and architecture. The critical and historical notes, explana
tions by the artists, biographies and bibliographies contain information not readily found elsewhere. There
x/r mn W illustration over 893 plates of the work of over 300 modern painters, sculptors and architects,
the Museum makes no profit on these books. It sells them considerably below the cost of production, as
a part of its educational service to students and the public.
Nineteenth Century Painters and Sculptors
Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat, van Gogh. The four great pioneers of modern painting.
Critical and biographical studies by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. 152 pages; 97 plates; paper
bound —$2.00
Homer, Ryder, Eakins. Essays by Bryson Burroughs, Frank Jewett Mather, and Lloyd
Goodrich on these American "old masters." 68 pages; 34 plates; paper bound— $2.00
Corot and Daumier. Two painters much admired by living artists. Introduction by
Alfred H. Barr, Jr. 128 pages; 108 plates; paper bound —$2.00
Toulouse-Lautrec and Odilon Redon. Introduction by Jere Abbott. Notes on artists,
actors, and singers of Lautrec's circle by Daniel Catton Rich. 72 pages; 39 plates-
paper bound —$2.00
The Bliss Collection. Memorial Exhibition. Out of print
American Folk Art. Most comprehensive survey so far published about American folk
art, including sculpture. 28-page introduction by Holger Cahill. Bibliography of
wen periodicals. 131 pages; 80 plates; paper bound— $1.50; bound in boards
— $0.50
Twentieth Century Painters and Sculptors
Painting in Paris. Foreword and critical notes by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. A succinct intro
duction to the work of the most influential school of living artists. 88 pages- 50 nlates-
paper bound —$2.00 1 '
Paintings by 19 Living Americans. This and the following catalog are anthologies of
work by the best known contemporary American artists. Biographical notes by Alfred
H. Barr, Jr. 88 pages; 38 plates; paper bound —$2.00
Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans. 67 pages; 34 plates; paper bound— $1.50
German Painting and Sculpture. Work of the leading German artists, with foreword
and extensive notes by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. 91 pages; 49 plates; paper bound —$2.00
Lehmbruck and Maillol. Out of print
Murals by American Painters and Photographers. Essays by Lincoln Kirstein and

Juhen Levy. 62 pages; 61 plates; paper bound— $.50
American Painting and Sculpture, 1862-1932. A selection from American painting and
sculpture, divided about equally between 19th and 20th century works. Introduction
by Holger Calull. 128 pages; 79 plates; paper bound— $1.50; bound in boards— $3.50
American Sources of Modern Art. Introduction on the art of ancient America and its
relationship to the art of today by Holger Cahill. Bibliography of over 100 titles
104 pages; 56 plates; paper bound— $1.50; bound in boards —$3.50
Painting and Sculpture from Sixteen American Cities. Contemporary work by
119 artists, with biographies. Edited by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. 61 pages; 116 illustrations;
paper bound— $1.00; bound in boards— $2.50
Monographs on Individual Artists
Henri-Matisse. "Notes of a Painter" by Henri-Matisse; the only publication in English

ot these important observations. Critical essay by Alfred H. Barr, Jr P>8 pages-
82 plates; paper bound— $2.00; bound in boards— $3.00
Charles Burchfield, Early Watercolors. Foreword by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and notes by
the artist. 24 pages; 10 plates; paper bound— $1.00
Paul Klee. Out of print
Diego Rivera. Out of print
Max Weber, Retrospective Exhibition. Work by one of the most important American
modernists. Foreword by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., and notes by the artist. 40 pages-
16 plates; paper bound —$1.00 '
Maurice Sterne. Introduction by Horace Kallen and notes by the artist. Biography bv
Holger Cahill. 52 pages; 23 plates; bound in boards— $2.50
Edward Hopper. "Notes on Painting" by Edward Hopper. Essays by Charles Burchfield
and Allred H. Barr, Jr. 81 pages; 48 plates; paper bound, $1.00; bound in boards, $2.50
Architecture
Modern Architecture. Introduction by Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Nine short monographs, and
lists by Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Jr., and Philip Johnson. An essay on the housing
problem by Lewis Mumford. Complete bibliographies. 200 pages; 65 plates; paper
bound —$1.50; bound in boards —Out of print
Theatre
Theatre Art. Four centuries of Theatre Art. Edited and with introduction by Lee
Simonson. Contributions by John Anderson, Paul Alfred Merbach, Oliver M. Savler
John Mason Brown. 146 pages; 76 plates— $1.50; cloth bound— $2.00
Rivera Portfolio
Diego Rivera— A Portfolio of Color Reproductions of Mexican Frescoes. Notes by

Jere Abbott. These are the first color reproductions published of the famous frescoes in
Chapingo, Cuernavaca and Mexico City. Contains 19 full-color plates and 15 mono
tones —$25.00
Twenty-five hundred copies of this catalog
were printed for the trustees of the Museum of
Modern Art, New York, by the Blanchard Press,
Inc., New York, March, Nineteen Thirty-four.
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Aluminum Company of America, Pittsburgh, Pa.

The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co., New Kensington, Pa.

American Radiator Co., 40 West 40th Street, N. Y.

American Sheet & Tin Plate Co., 71 Broadway, N. Y.

Arundell Clarke Ltd., 620 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.

Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co., Providence, R. I.

Chase Brass & Copper Co., Waterbury, Conn.

Conant Bros. Co., Somerville, Mass., (6 East 45th Street, N. Y.)

The Conover Co., Chicago, 111., (101 Park Avenue, N. Y.)

Coors Porcelain Co., Golden, Colorado

P. & F. Corbin, 101 Park Avenue, N. Y.

Corning Glass Works, Corning, N. Y., (501 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.)

Design Engineers, Inc., 745 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.

Dictaphone Sales Corporation, 420 Lexington Avenue, N. Y.

Eugene Dietzgen Co., Inc., 218 East 23rd Street, N. Y.

Henry Disston & Sons, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa.

Distillers Products Corp., Empire State Building, N. Y.

Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc., 622 Fifth Avenue, N. Y.

Eimer & Amend, Third Avenue at 18th Street, N. Y.

Electrol Inc., 227 East 45th Street, N. Y.

Electromaster Inc., 1803 East Atwater Street, Detroit, Mich.

Ritter Dental Manufacturing Co., Inc., Rochester, N. Y. (200 Fifth Avenue N Y )

for generously lending materials for installation

for the design of the cover

for his assistance in designing the installation

for their special advice

TRUSTEES COMMITTEE ON THE EXHIBITION

Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Director

By beauty of shapes I do not mean, as most people would suppose,

Ad pulchritudinem tria requiruntur. Primo quidem integritas, sive per

St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae , I, q. 39, a. 8.,

Industrial civilization must either find a means of ending the

L. P. Jacks: Responsibility and Culture

Machine Art and Geometrical Beauty.

The beauty of machine art is in part the abstract beauty of "straight

Static and Kinetic Rhythms.

The beauty of machine art depends often upon rhythmical as well as

In addition to perfection of shape and rhythm, beauty of surface is an

A knowledge of function may be of considerable importance in the

The previous paragraphs have considered the aesthetic enjoyment

Machine Art and Handicraft.

The Scope of the Exhibition.

Popp, J. Deutsches Warenbuch, herausgegeben von der Diirerbund-

Gropius, Walter. Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar 1919-1923 Walter Gropius and

Pfleiderer, Wolfgang, Die Form ohne Ornament: Werkbundausstellung 1924. Stutt

Le Corbusier. L'art decoratif d'aujourd'hui. Paris, Cres, n.d.

Kollmann, Franz. Schonheit der Technik. Munich, Langen, 1928.

Within each division the objects are listed according to use.

Listing of each object is as follows: Name of the object

3. Air brake spring 20. Bare concentric strand of electrical cable

2. HOUSEHOLD AND OFFICE EQUIPMENT

107. Stock pots, rustless steel *119. Crusader bakers' bowls

108. Wear-Ever stock pots *120. Wear-Ever food containers

129. French fryers *142. Wear-Ever griddle

133. Mixing bowls, black enamel *147. Imported slicers

134. Mixing bowls 148. Square coffee jars

209. Small berry bowls, wood 225. Pretzel bowl, chromium

238. Black glass vases 251. Ball cigarette lighter

331. Cube of didymium glass 348. Protractor, steel