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Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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le and other Spanish towns asremarkably appropriate to a Columbian celebration. In the assio-nment to various architects of commissions fordesieninor certain buildines there were few restrictions made uponthem and few regulations which they were instructed to follow. Onewas that all the architects were to adopt a proportion of 60 feet ofheight, 50 being the column height and 10 that of the entablature.This was to be kept equal and even, and in perfect accord with thetop of the line of solid masonry around the Grand Court. It is soto-day. Above that 60-foot level are the statues, poles, towers,rails, and the rest of the ornamentation of the palaces. Anotherreorulation was that, in all buildino-s on the Grand Court, arcades onthe first story should permit passage around the building undercover. In harmony with these. Machinery Hall then is. It is well to exhaust our glance at the construction and plans of MACHINERY. 143 the buildings before attempting to discuss the host <3f exhibits
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GROUP ON COI^ONXADE. Between Agiicnlture and Machinery Buildings. (M. A. Waageii). placed in them. The Annex in which electrical power is usedadjoins Machinery Hall on the west. It is a very large but 144 MACHINERY. very simple building, constructed of wood in a plain and economicalmanner. While in the main building for machinery the type was arailway train house, in the Annex a mill or foundry was consideredthe model for construction. Attached to this great Annex is thepower-house, convenient to the tracks for coal supply, and contain-ing the immense display of boilers. Adjoining is the enormousplant of engines and dynamos, the largest and most interesting dis-play of electrical power ever made. Hundreds of thousands ofpersons for whom an intricate machine has the strongest fascinationmake this building their Mecca, and every hour spent within itsw^alls is a valuable one. Steam machinery, electrical machinery,pneumatic and hydraulic machinery—all are exploited here in themost exhau

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