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Identifier: worldscolumbiane02whit (find matches)
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
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TURKISH TRANSPORTATION EXHIBIT. lehem Iron Company. These famous gun and armor works, situ-ated at South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, make a showing that neverfails to draw expressions of astonishment from every visitor. Themost visible exhibit in the whole building Is the great structurewhich bestrides the main aisle like the Colossus of Rhodes. It isan exact reproduction of Bethlehems 125-ton steam hammer, thekrgest in the world, under which the heaviest armor plates areforged and shaped. It Is appropriately placed amid the models andsectional plans of battle and merchant ships, which require the pro- ; TRANSPORTATION. 273 ducts of the forge. It towers ninety-one feet In height to the very
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MODEI. OF 125 TON HAMMER. Exhibited by Bethlehem Iron Company. roof beams, and so well have the wood and staff been moulded to-gether that to all appearances the model is solid iron. The anvil t8 274 TRANSPORTATION, blocks could not be shown In place, as It would obstruct the passageway. Besides this, the Bethlehem Company shows modern cannonof great size ; armor plate which seems impenetrable, and castingsof enormous size. There is one fluid-compressed steel ingot orcasting, fifteen feet long and fifty-four Inches In diameter, weighingforty-eight tons. From a similar Ingot weighing sixty-five tons wasmade the shaft of the famous Ferris Wheel in Midway Plalsance.The same company also shows steamship shafts, and solid and builtcranks for vessels. After the Bethlehem Works comes a laree area devoted to theexhibit of France. There are a number of locomotives and other

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