tinue these temporaries in service until they are all absorbed in the. permanent force.

Models.

The work of opening the boxes containing the models was begun in the last week of September. A certain number have been turned over to the Smithsonian Institution, but no others have been actually distributed. To open the boxes and prepare the models for shipment, will require several months and it is possible that none will be actually shipped until this is completed.

Resignations From The Examining Corps.

The following table shows the number of resignations for each month beginning with Jan. 1924.

In addition there were 11 assistants separated from the service other than by resignation in 1924 and 5 so separated for the first 9 months of 1925. It seems probable that there will be 10 or 15 more resignations this year than last.

Attorneys.

In order to bring the Office roster up to date the following notice has been sent to all registered attorneys.

Dear Sir:

Your name appears on the roster of those registered to practice before the United States Patent Office. We are preparing to revise the roster to eliminate the names of those who are dead or who have retired from practice before this Office.

You are reminded that the rules provide that attorneys registered in this Office should keep the Office advised of any change of address. To this end will you please fill out the form below and return this letter immediately.

Your failure to fill out and return this letter will be considered your authorization to remove your name from the roster.

Very truly yours,

THOMAS E. ROBERTSON
Commissioner.

JAMES A. HOFFMAN.

Mr. James A. Hoffman, Chief Clerk of the Patent Office, resigned September 30, 1925. Mr. Hoffman is intending to go into business for himself and take up the practice of Patent Law here in Washington. A short account of his career appeared in one of the early issues of the Patent Office Society Journal of this year.

JAMES A. BREARLEY.

Mr. James A. Brearley was born in Philadelphia, Pa., on June 14, 1876. He came to Washington in 1882 and after going through the graded schools in that city, he entered the U. S. Naval Gun Factory in 1892 as an apprentice to learn the trade of machinist and tool maker.

His work in this line developed an interest in mechanical engineering and after a four year course in George Washington University, he graduated in 1903 with the degree of B. S., specializing in mechanical and civil engineering.

In April 1903, he entered the drafting division of the Naval Gun Factory as a draftsman. He graduated from George Washington University in 1905 with the post graduate degree of mechanical engineer.

On July 1, 1906, he entered the Patent Office as a Fourth Assistant Examiner, being assigned to Division 29. He was promoted through the various grades to Associate Examiner and went from this position to the position of Chief Clerk.

He was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and to the Court of Appeals, October 12th of this year.

MANUEL C. ROSA.

Mr. Manuel C. Rosa, assistant in Division 50, resigned October 19, 1925. Mr. Rosa was appointed April 10, 1922, from Massachusetts. He holds the degree of B. S. from Harvard University and LL. B. from Georgetown Law School. His first work in the Office was in mechanical divisions but as a chemist he was transferred to Division 6, and moved with his class to Division 50 when the latter was established. He has been an enthusiastic worker for the Patent Office Society, being a member of the Executive Committee, and chairman of the Membership Committee. In the latter capacity he established the system of a 3x5 record card for each member, with a follow-up system for each new examiner. He was one of the two who started the current court decisions department of this Journal. Mr. Rosa is going into general law and patent practice at Fall River and Taunton, Massachusetts.

A RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT.

By WILLIAM I. WYMAN.

Principal Examiner, Patent Office.

The startling proportion of revolutionary inventions created by Americans since the modern American patent system was founded is neatly and strikingly exemplified in a simple but graphic exhibit that has just been installed by the officials of the United States Patent Office. On a large bulletin board in the main rotunda of the building are mounted about seventy-five printed copies of United States patents granted to American inventors for contributions of fundamental importance and of primary character. They embrace endeavors which on the whole have had a greater social and industrial effect on civilization than those of any other country during the same period. They comprise particularly those advances in applied science which especially distinguish our present civilization.

Electrical energy for communication and in the industrial arts was first applied on a large scale in this country and far above all other countries is America's lead in electrical invention. The telegraph and the telephone were the first notable commercial utilizations of the electrical current, while the electric light started the modern electrical age of power, heating and lighting.

Another department in which the United States shines even more preeminently, and which characterizes American industrial life more peculiarly, is in the invention and use of labor-saving devices. These are what distinguish American industry above all other differences and are mainly responsible for her disproportionately huge productive capacity. It is the labor-saving device that has made the United States so enormously wealthy, placed such a large number of its population in a position of material well-being, and provided its wage earners with an earning capacity of about three times that of its nearest European competitor.

They cannot in the small space devoted to the display, include examples of the tremendous strides made in automatic machinery since the beginning of the present century. In paper bag making, rolling mill practice, foundry operations, steel production, and most especially in automobile manufacture, have been devised machines of wondrous intricacy which with unbelievably skilled automatic operations carry forth manipulations of complexity and sensitive nicety, and with unimaginable increase of production.

In three industries examples are given of the introduction of automatic machinery which have quickened their processes so tremendously as to occasion large social consequences and to be equivalent to the introduction of new arts. In steel making, machinery has largely supplemented or displaced manual labor, making it possible to double or triple output with a practically stationary force in the last quarter century.

Shoe machinery has made production of footwear almost an entirely automatic affair, while inventions in the automatic production of glass bottles, sheet and cylinder ware in very recent years have not only marvelously increased output, but have eradicated methods of manual production which have a history of thousands of years behind them and which a short time ago could not be conceived to be carried through by machine procedure.

Progress Based on these Patents.

Recently, for the first time in the history of inventive endeavor, applied science has entered the field of romance. In the phonograph, the motion picture and radio, the amusements of the entire world were simultaneously and radically reorganized. With the exception of that occasioned by printing, all the variations in the social changes that have occurred since the beginning of recorded history have not equalled in telling effect the result