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THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
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The Machinery Gallery occupies the outer zone, and com-
prises twenty classes (47 to 66), consisting of all kinds of
mechanical appliances, carriages, railway stock and marine
implements. In the middle, are machines in motion, on the
sides, various plans and products belonging to the same cate-
gory. A platform of about twenty-five feet high, raised along
the centre of the whole length, allows the visitors to take a
bird's eye view of the contents.
At the entrance in the Grand Vestibule opposing Great
Britain are erected two huge trophies of the metals most useful
to man, brass and iron. The former is a perpendicular
cluster of pipes, somewhat resembling the organ of a cathedral
or the basaltic rocks of the " Montes dos Orgaes " which rise
behind Rio de Janeiro. The latter has a somewhat mournful
aspect, not unlike the gates of a prison, but as Virgil says
O formose puer nimium ne crede colori!
do not trust too much to colour, for these dingy looking rails
are the connecting links between the people, the humble
tools of harmony and civilization.
The first object of interest we meet after passing this portico
is an ingenious felting machine, invented by Mr. Vouillon of
Louviers, to whom is due in a great measure the credit of the
many useful applications of this waste material.
Stehelin & Co. of Bischwiller, exhibit a large frame of
cotton cards, acting by George Risler's system, and an auto-
maton winding machine.
Troyes is .the Leicester of France, and Berthelot & Co.'s
improved looms^show that French hosiery has made great
progress during the last few years.-
M,. Cauchefert of Longchamps has a weaving loom for
45
The Machinery Gallery occupies the outer zone, and com-
prises twenty classes (47 to 66), consisting of all kinds of
mechanical appliances, carriages, railway stock and marine
implements. In the middle, are machines in motion, on the
sides, various plans and products belonging to the same cate-
gory. A platform of about twenty-five feet high, raised along
the centre of the whole length, allows the visitors to take a
bird's eye view of the contents.
At the entrance in the Grand Vestibule opposing Great
Britain are erected two huge trophies of the metals most useful
to man, brass and iron. The former is a perpendicular
cluster of pipes, somewhat resembling the organ of a cathedral
or the basaltic rocks of the " Montes dos Orgaes " which rise
behind Rio de Janeiro. The latter has a somewhat mournful
aspect, not unlike the gates of a prison, but as Virgil says
O formose puer nimium ne crede colori!
do not trust too much to colour, for these dingy looking rails
are the connecting links between the people, the humble
tools of harmony and civilization.
The first object of interest we meet after passing this portico
is an ingenious felting machine, invented by Mr. Vouillon of
Louviers, to whom is due in a great measure the credit of the
many useful applications of this waste material.
Stehelin & Co. of Bischwiller, exhibit a large frame of
cotton cards, acting by George Risler's system, and an auto-
maton winding machine.
Troyes is .the Leicester of France, and Berthelot & Co.'s
improved looms^show that French hosiery has made great
progress during the last few years.-
M,. Cauchefert of Longchamps has a weaving loom for