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Identifier: authenticguideto01merc (find matches)
Title: Authentic guide to Chicago and the World's Columbian exposition
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Merchants' World's fair bureau of information company, Chicago. (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: (The H. Sellschopp printing and publishing company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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The building is spanned bythree arched trusses, and the interior presents the appearanceof three railroad train-houses side by side, surrounded on ailthe four sides by a gallery 50 feet wide. The trusses arebuilt separately so they can be taken down and sold for useas railroad train houses. In each of the long naves there isan elevated traveling crane running from end to end of thebuilding for the purpose of moving machinery. These plat-forms are built so that visitors may view from them theexhibits beneath. The power for this building is suppliedfrom a power-house adjoining the south side of the building. CLASSIFICATION OF EXHIBITS IN MACHINERY HALL. DEPARTMENT F. GROUP 69. MOTORS AND APPARATUS FOR THE GENERATION AND TRANS-MISSION OF POWER, HYDRAULIC AND PNEUMATICAPPARATUS. Class 413. Boilers and all steam or gas generating appar-atus for motive purposes. Class 414. Water wheels, water engines, hydraulic rams,Class 415 Steam, air and gas engines,51 126 AUTHENTIC GUIDE TO CHICAGO AND
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< w M s o WORLD S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 127 Class 416. Apparatus for the transmission of power—shafting, hanglers, belting*, pulleys, couplings, clutches, cables,gearing. Transmission of power by compressed air. etc. Class 417. Pumps and apparatus for lifting andmoving liquids, water filters. (See also Department E.) Class 418. Pumps and apparatus for moving and com-pressing air or gas. (See also Department E.) Class 420. Hydraulic presses, freight elevators and lifts,traveling cranes and derricks. (See also Department E.) Class 421. Beer engines, soda water machines, bottlingapparatus, corking machines. (See also Department A.) Class 422. Iron and other metal:c pipes, tubes and fittings,stop valves, cocks, etc. Class 423. Diving apparatus and machinery. Class 424. Ice machines. Refrigerating apparatus.GROUP 70. FIRE ENGINES—APPARATUS APPLIANCES FOR EXTINGUISHING FIRE. Class 425. Engines.Class 426. Hose-carts and hose.Class 427. Ladders and escapes.Class 428. Standpipes, etc. C

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