viii. BOAZ,
James.
Description of Boaz’s Diurnal and Noctural Patent Telegraph, with Directions for using it.
Glasgow,
1804.
Great Britain Patent Office Library Catalogue, 1898, I, 104.
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ix.
The Useful Cabinet, published in Monthly Numbers, for the Newengland Association of Inventors and Patrons of Useful Arts.
Vol. I. For the Year 1808.
Boston: Printed for the Association, by
Ephraim C. Beals. [
1808.]
T1 .U8
6 parts in 1 (all published). 8vo in fours: [ ]
4, B-S
4, 6 engraved plates, original blue wrappers bound in.
Thomas Jefferson’s name is in the list of subscribers printed on the wrapper for the March number.
The
Useful Cabinet was edited by Benjamin Dearborn, President of the Newengland Association of Inventors and Patrons of Useful Arts.
On January 2, 1807, Dearborn wrote to Jefferson: “By advice of the Committee of Patentees and Proprietors of Patents, I address to you half a dozen copies of Remarks on the
rights of Inventors, and the influence of their Studies in promoting the Enjoyments of Life and Public Prosperity . . .”
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xi. REGNIER,
Edme.
Description et usage du Dynamometre pour connaître et comparer la force relatives des Hommes, celles des Chevaux et de tout
les Bêtes de trait . . . Par E. Regnier.
Paris,
1804.
No copy of this edition was located for collation, which according to an entry in the Library of Congress Catalogue of 1849,
was the one in Jefferson’s library.
Jefferson’s copy was sent to him from Paris by David Baillie Warden on July 22, 1808: “I have the honor . . . of enclosing Regniers’ description of his
Dynomometre . . .”
The receipt of this letter was acknowledged by Jefferson to Warden in a letter from Washington dated February 25, 1809.
On July 28, 1808, John Armstrong wrote to Jefferson from Paris: “M. Warden has already forwarded to you Regnier’s description of the Dynamometre, and I have now the pleasure of sending the
machine itself. It has several uses, and its accuracy in all of them is unvarying . . .”
Edme Regnier, 1751-1825, French mechanic and inventor. The first edition was printed by Madame Huzard in 1798, in 4to. 10 leaves, 1 plate.
It had previously been printed in the
Journal de l’Ecole polytechnique
, prairial, an VI.
John Armstrong, 1758-1843, soldier and diplomat, was elected to the United States Senate in 1800. In 1804 he was appointed Minister to France, where he remained until 1810. In 1813 he was made Secretary of War.
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