Official catalogue and guide book to the Pan-American exposition .. . est methods andapparatus for heating cars, and the maintenance of high temperaturesunder particular conditions; the heating of flat irons, cooking and bak-ing by electricity; electric forging, welding, stamping, tempering andbrazing, showing by the most recent devices the wide applicaton of elec-tricity to the working of metals. Group 9—Electro-metallurgy and electro-chemistry. Group 10—Electric telegraph, electric signals, wireless telegraphy. Group 11—The telephone and its appliances. Group 12—Electricity in surgery, denti
Official catalogue and guide book to the Pan-American exposition .. . est methods andapparatus for heating cars, and the maintenance of high temperaturesunder particular conditions; the heating of flat irons, cooking and bak-ing by electricity; electric forging, welding, stamping, tempering andbrazing, showing by the most recent devices the wide applicaton of elec-tricity to the working of metals. Group 9—Electro-metallurgy and electro-chemistry. Group 10—Electric telegraph, electric signals, wireless telegraphy. Group 11—The telephone and its appliances. Group 12—Electricity in surgery, dentistry and therapeutics. Theresults of X-ray work are included in this section. Group 13—History and statistics, progress and development in elec-trical science and construction from its inception, as illustrated by mod-els, drawings, literature or otherwise. Group 14—Electricity in submarine and torpedo work, as used inengineering and warfare. The cost of the building, without ornamentation, was $130,000. 19 The Pan-American Official Catalogue and 20 The Pan-American Official Catalogue and Guide. ^MACHINERY AND TRANSPORTATION BUILDING. Southwest of the Court of Fountains and separated from the Manu-factures and Liberal Arts building by the Cascades is the Machineryand Transportation building. It occupies a space 500x350 feet or aboutfour acres. The building is in the form of a hollow square, with arcadeson all sides and an interior court 100x200, where the pumping stationfor the Exposition is located. It was designed by Architects Green &Wicks of Buffalo, N. Y. The roof is of red tile and its cement wallsare tinted with a color scheme of light reds and yellows. The windowsare grilled with iron screens designed after the Spanish rejas of thesixteenth century. As an architectural work the building is a master-piece, in the style of the Spanish Renaissance. The main entrances inthe north and south facades are flanked on either side by tall towershaving open lant
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