The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . HIMEDES declared diat if hebut had a place on which torest the fulcrums, he could con-struct a lever with which hecould lift the world. If thatmachinist of old were to enter the building for machinery at theWorlds Columbian Exposition he would be amazed. He wouldbelieve his dream realized, for here are combinations of the mechan-ical arts so perfect and so won-derful that it would seem as if bytheir united strength the worldand the solar systems of theuniverse could be overturnedwith the touch of an electricbutton. ?iere is the most mar-velous
The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . HIMEDES declared diat if hebut had a place on which torest the fulcrums, he could con-struct a lever with which hecould lift the world. If thatmachinist of old were to enter the building for machinery at theWorlds Columbian Exposition he would be amazed. He wouldbelieve his dream realized, for here are combinations of the mechan-ical arts so perfect and so won-derful that it would seem as if bytheir united strength the worldand the solar systems of theuniverse could be overturnedwith the touch of an electricbutton. ?iere is the most mar-velous display which mechanicalingenuity and genius lias evergathered to be viewed by every nation which canoffer anything in the nature ofadvanced machinery comes incompetition with every other,and the result is whir of wheels and theclamor of engines is almostdeafening, and yet in the midstof all the noise and confusioneach machine works hour byhour as if with brains of steel scriPTimK on machinhky lAO MACHINERY. too Strong to be dazed or troubled. The immense structure whichhouses the exhibits of machinery is second in cost to none exceptthe building for manufactures, and second in size only to the samegiant. With its annexes, power-house, pumping works and machineshop, its total area is more than eighteen acres, and the total costnearly ^1,300,000. The dimensions of the main structure are 492X 846 feet, and of the annex 490 x 550 feet. The power-housemeasures 100 x 461 feet; the pumping works 77 x 84 feet, and the
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