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RIBBING PARTS OF INSTRUMENTS.<br />

Patrons will notice the omission in this edition<br />

of illustrations of the practice of ribbing and con-<br />

struction of parts of our instruments to gain strength<br />

and lightness.<br />

We omit the illustrations of these improvements,<br />

introduced by us since 1871, because now they are<br />

in common use.<br />

The cuts in this catalog show the lines on which<br />

we are advancing these improvements to an extent<br />

hitherto unknown.<br />

ALUMINUM.<br />

We omit cuts in former editions of parts of in-<br />

struments made of aluminum alloys, because said cuts<br />

do not express the wider range of use to which these<br />

alloys are being applied by us today to instruments of<br />

special design for special purposes.<br />

Nevertheless, in the present state of these alloys<br />

it is incumbent upon us to say that the opinion ex-<br />

pressed in Part I of this catalogue must still gener-<br />

ally be adhered to.<br />

These alloys, in the construction of field instru-<br />

ments, must be used with extreme caution and judgment<br />

to give satisfaction.<br />

104

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