The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-06-23

THE following description is from the
New York Posts Centennial CORES
pondent
TO many visitors Machinery Hall Is
the most interesting building on the
Centennial grounds. It's construction
closely resembles that of the Main
Exhibition Puilding which described
yesterday, and whose north front IS
upon the same line, tins making Elm
avenne an almost unbroken length
Of 8. .8o4 feet. It is 800 feet long and
$50 feet wide; it covers about fourteen
acres, and cost S542,300
On entering the editice at the west
ern end the sight is picturesque and
impressive. Almost every sort of ma
chinery in existence, from a locomotive
to a paper-folder, is in active operation.
The persons employed to work them
are now fairly started in their tasks,
and the prospect of six months in the
building seems to make them feel at
home The central object of interest is
the magnificent CorlIss engine, made in
Providence, r. T., which furnishes the
motive power for all the machinery that
is not selfpropelling. 1t consists of All
immense hy-wheel. 80 feet In diameter,
two feet in thickness and sc tnns weight.
caused to revoive at the rate of SO rev.
ulutions minute by the piston rods OF
two cylinders and so silently docs it
perform its work that even when close
beside it you can hear the lowest tones
of your companion's voice. Below it is
the main shaft, which by gear-wheels
six feet in diameter connects with eight
lines of shatting each 635 feet long, run
ming lengthwise under the root, and
communicating their motion by leather
belts to the various machinery on the
floor.
This machinery is OF the most ingen-
inus and various description, aud con-
sists of apparatus used in mining in
working metal, wood and stone !; in
spinning, weaving, felting and paper
making in sewing and the manufac-
tnre of clothing and ornamental objects;
i'll type-se,ting. printing, stamping, em-
bossing, book making and paper work
ing in producing and transmitting
power in pumping, hosting and lifting
by hydraulic and pneumatic force; in
manufacturing locomotives and railway
rolling stock i. preparing agricultural
products, and in aerial, pneumatic and
water transportation. While saunter-
ing along the aisles one can witness the
processes of rock drilling, of well and
shaft boring, of coal cutting, of electro
plating, of planning, saving, veneering,
growing, mortising. tonguing, cutting,
molding, stamping and carving OF drill
ling, slotting, turning. punching and
coming of rolling iron. grinding glass,
casting metals, and riveting, mailing,
boiling and lacking them by steam; of
manufacturing silk, cotton, wool and
linen goods, rope, twine, paper and telt-
ing. india rubber goods, mixed fabrics
and wire clott, type casting and stere-
otyping, and thousands of other things
that we could not even briefly mention
did we take up the entire paper In
deco it is not too much TO say that an
extraordinary lifetime might be spent in
examining the apparatus, the processes
and the results presented in Machinery
Hall. The vast structure, with the ex-
ception, perhaps, Of some OF the persons
who arc visiting it, does not contain q
single object not interesting or instruct
i've.