New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-27
m THE MACHINERY PALACE
osr.THIRD OF THE SPACE GIVEN TO THE
AMERICAN EXHIBIT.
FEATURES OF AN IMPOSING DISPLAY IN "D'
soRrs OF MECHANICAL coNTElVANohS-
INNOVATIONS IN THE PRINTER 9 ART
,rur ryrryrR1nAI, EXHIBIT.
-naE ELEc1rR1oAL EXHIBIT.

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Paris, May 26-The Machinery RANCE VI
Exposition is the largest building ever cOn0'A
under q single roof remarksoIe pea'u'0 v W
building Is that the roof has no lhVeriU' '"pf"
except twenty great arches, hinged d. 'ne -ou'-s'
tion plates and apex 30 as TO proVlue ioi '>p".'-
and contraction under changes IN VeNp ppeio'uit
The roof is glazed. The lower pahes ale ',,,'
with heraldic designs. The enuS Vi 'no Oue
are filed with toned glass. Lght Is ,D' "ounu"hV'
ard the eject of the decoration is magnificent.
The Lnotb ~ the building is nearly l,4Oo feet,
a.. ,,iatb a7o feet and its height 10 leet
o.I,o.- tbirtv feet from the floor extends the
sn.;,a l.rc+b nm both sides AT the four corners
. ors s,aam generators for driving the entire ma
cbinerv The power Is communicated by shafting
aced nm four rows of trels orders lying parallel
x,,b the length Of the building and placed in
suhyravs The engines are now working and there
,s more mower than is required. AN idea OF the
colossal character of the Exhibition may be gained
from the fact that the power available this year
is fopr times rs great as that furnished during
the Exhibition Of 1878.
The American machinery exhibit occupies one.
third of the entire space in this building and is,
In all respects but one, more imposing than the
exhibit at any previous international exhibition.
The exception is in agricultural machinery, in
which we do not show progress corresponding TO
that manifested in other lines. We are indeed
at Q double disadvantage in this, for besides
exhibiting nothing notably new, European nations
have been successfully overtal<ing us in the pro.
duction Of our own machines. This is specially
true Of Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria
and Switzerland. In this respect, as in others
OF equal Importance, we have supplied Europe
with ideas. 1t will be remembered that Cyrus
Mccormick failed to secure In tho
United States the adoption of his
agricultural machinery until after its exhibition in
London in 1851 That international exhibition
inaugurated new era in machinery. In 1867
Thomas Z. Pickering, engineer and inventor, who
has been superintendent Of machinery for the
United States at the Successive exhibitions at
Paris, Vienna Philade uhia, Melbourne and New
Orleans, brought about the exhibition of one fifty
horsepower Corliss engine il this city. This
engine was sold to Frenchman. To-day, if no
American machinery occupied the space allotted to
the United States, the entire area could be filed
up with the notifications of the CorlisS engine
manufactured by Europeans Two-thirds of the
steam engines exhibited are Of the Corliss pattern.
In 1857 there was an exhibit OF machine tools by
Brown IL Sharp Of Providence They were all
sod. To-day, tools made after the Brown &
Sharp patterns by Europeans are universal in the
exhibition.
When the model of the yacht America was
shown in the United States il was rather scoffed
at Its superiority was promptly detected by
British builders, and IL is now becoming a model
on the Clyde.
When the International Congress of Civil, No
chanjcsl and Mining Engineers meets here next
month 1t is apparent that the chief pleasure Of the
American delegation, numbering nearly 800. will
be to point out the docility with which American
mechanical ideas have been adopted by other
countries. These ideas are paramount. Within
obvious limits they relate chiefly 10 steam engines,
air compressors, machine tools machinery for form
ing sheet metal for rolling metsls into forms, for
making paper bags, machinery for working on rock
and stone by means Of compressed air, for making
wood screws by rolling instead Of forging, and
for cutting the threads, and woodworking ma
chinery.
A Baldwin gas engine, built by OTIS Brothers,
attracts attention by employing gas to run
dynamo for the purpose of lighting by means of
incandescent lamps, the claim being that the light
thus produced is more economical than gas itself.
Warner & Savage, of Cleveland, and William
Sellers & Co., Of Philadelphia, are conspicuous
by their exhibits Of brass-working machinery.
%Prnting House Square, in the American ex-
by Pickering for the special accomm odaton OF the
presses, which are not easily connected with the
shafting Neither Scott nor Hoe has any exhibit,
but the plant, when ready will be considerable
The Campbell and the Golden companies exhibits
are the most important
Several type-setting machines are exhibited,
the Macmillan, the Thornc, and the
Mrgenthaler Linotype machine. The last named
peserts the most striking features as it does away
with movable type. Instead it uses matrices, and
casts solid bar for each line. the matrices being
then returned automatically 10 their proper
places. This machine is furnished with phono-
graph. which dictates COPY 70 the operator
The only othsr country exhibiting novel i'm
provements in printing machinery is Great
Britain.
We have Q practical monopoly also Of writing
machines, there being nine American exhibitors
and only one English exhibitor. one Russian and
one Swiss. The machines OF none of tLeSc con
pare favorably with the best American machine.
ThaS electricity constitutes an absorbing yrob-
lem Of mechanical invention and physical dis
eovery is shown by the prominence its apparatus
occupies throughout the Machinery Hall, and in
various other parts OF the exhibition There are
500 exhibitors in this b=anch. The universaIity
Of the study devoted TO IL Is shown in the range
Of the countries represented by apparatus lAese
include France, Germany, Great Britain
America, Belgium, Switzerland, algeria, Austria,
Hungary, Chill, Denmark Spain, Italy, Japan,
Norway, Portugal, Russia and Finland. The
. application OF electricity to machinery and to
various processes is making steady il not rapid
progress. The position q Alexander Graham
while the great discovery by Professor
Elihu Thomson of the, perfect fusion
by means Of electricity OF metals that do not ANAL
ganate In the forge adds third American TO the
list OF electricians first in the world. Professor
Thomson'S discovery Is expected 10 revolutionize
the processes sRd modify methods throughout the
whole scops of metal working, from the fine art OF
the goldsmith 20 the colossal undertakings Of the
The Bell telephone is shown in the Liberal Arts
section, not In Machinery Hall, as the consent OF
the French telephone interests cOuh not be pro
cured for wires. That IL should transmit million
messages day impreSses Frenchmen considerably.
estSeiaIly when they know how inexpensive IT Is
n.bfI entire