Image: Exposition universelle, 1900 - the chefs-d'uvre (1900) (14597572428)

Description: Identifier: expositionuniver10walt (find matches) Title: Exposition universelle, 1900 : the chefs-d'uvre Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Walton, William, 1843-1915 Champier, Victor, b. 1851 Saglio, André, b. 1869 Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris, France) Subjects: Art Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Barrie & Son Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: rancs. Of the many methods of transportation furnished by and for theExposition, much the most popular is the moving sidewalk, or trottoirroulant, here first seen in successful operation, though it was erected atChicago in 1893, and has been experimented with in Bedin. Beforebeing adopted, it was given a series of trials at Saint-Ouen, in February,1899. This realization of Pascals chemin qui marchc is claimed by theFrench as the invention of a French engineer, a M. Blot, though the pres-ent actual working structure is due to two Americans, Messrs. Schmidtand Silsbee. The motor power is electric; the platform is arranged inthree longitudinal sections, of which the first is stationary, the second,elevated a step, runs at the rate of four kilometres an hour, and the third,still a step higher, at eight. To facilitate the transfer from one to another,upright iron rods with a ball on the top are stationed at intervals along THE CHINESE SECTION IN THE GARDENS OF THE TROCADERO PHOTOGRAVURE vl Text Appearing After Image: ARCHITECTURE 8i V Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Exposition universelle, 1900 - the chefs-d'uvre (1900) (14597572428)
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