The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-06-01
What America Has There.

PARIS, May 26.-The machinery
palace of the exposition is the largest
building ever constructed under a
single roof. A remarkable feature
of the building is that the roof has no
interior support except twenty great
arches hinged at the foundation plates
and apex so as to provide for expan-
sion and contraction under changes
in temperature. The length of the
building is nearly 1.4G0 feet, in width
$40 feet, and its heighth ITO feet. The
American machinery exhibit occu-
pies one third of the entire space in
this building and is in all respects
but one more imposing than the eX-
hibit at any previous international
exhibition. The exception is in ag-
ricultural machinery, in which it
does not show progress correspond
ing to that manifested in other lines.
In 1867 there was an exhibit of ma
chine tools by Brown & Sharp, of
Providence. They were all sold. To-
day tools made after the Brown &
Sharp patterns by Europeans are uni
yersal in the exhibition. When the
model of the yacht America was
shown in the United States it was
rather scoffed at, Its superiority was
promptly detected by British build.
ers, and it is now becoming model
on the Clyde. Warner and Swazer.
of Cleveland, and William Sellers G.
Co., of Philadelphia, are conspicuous
by their exhibits of brass working
machinery.
printing House Square," in the
| American exhibit, will be run by
electric power supplied by Pickering
for the special accommodation of the
presses, which are not easily connect
ed with the shatting. Neither Scott
nor Hoe has any exhibit, but the
plant, when ready. will be consider
able. The Campbell and the Golden
companies exhibits are the most i'm
portant. Several type-setting ma
chimes are exhibited including the
Macmillan. the Thorne and the Ma
halter machine. Ire last named
presents the most striking features.
as it does away with movable type,
Instead it uses matrices and casts a
solid bar for each line, the matrices
being then returned automatically tC
their proper places. This machine is
furnished with monograph. which
dictates copy to the operator. The
only other country exhibiting novel
improvements in printing machinery
is Great Britain. We haye practical
monopoly of writing machines, there
being 8 American exhibitors and only
one English, one Russian and one
Swiss. The machine of none of these
compares fayorably with the best
American machine.
That electricity constitutes an alb.
sorbing problem of mechanical in.
vention and physical discovery is
shown by the prominence its APP
paratus occupies. Throughout ma.
chinery hall and in various other
parts of the exhibition there are 500
exhibitors in this branch. The uni
versatility of the study devoted to 1t is
shown in the range of the countries
represented by apparatus. These ln-
clude France, Germany, Great Brit
ain, America. Belgium Switzerland,
Algeria, Austria. Hungary. China.
Denmark. Spain, Italy. Japan, Nor
way, Portugal, Russia and Finland.
The Edison exhibition occupies
one-half the entire American 'front.'
age, covering 5000 square feet. 1t is
the largest single exhibit in the
exposition. His entire category of
inventions. numbering 433, is pre-
sented either completely or by INTEL
ligent suggestion. In the American
development of electricity and com.
merce predominates in the French
the sciences, especially chemistry
and applied mathematics.
Among the most imposing, but no
less ingenious machines, which are
looked upon as Yankee notions by
Europeans, are machines for sailing
and coloring butter, which is match
ed by French machine for sailing
and automatic weighing. An auto.
matte American machine for making
corkscrews out of wire, a machine for