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52 RECOLLECTIONS OF
means of a wire, with another needle, which repeats the
design, in all its details over a cylinder covered with vegetable
paper.
The exhibition of the Imperial Admiralty comprises a
great variety of models, among which we remark, an iron-
plated coast-guard vessel or monitor, somewhat resembling
two ships turned over each other ; several iron frigates, some
with revoling towers, others armed with the terrible ram ;. a
floating battery which is sunk almost to the water's edge ; a
cavalry transport ship, with stables for five hundred horses,
and a very complete plan of the Mediterranean and Atlantic
Dock-yards.
The Ministry of Public Works has also some designs and
models of great interest to engineers.
A plan which requires less special knowledge to be under-
stood, is that of the aerodrome, invented by a Mr. Borie, who,
not finding Parisian houses sufficiently high, proposes to give
them a dozen stories with suspended gardens, like those of
Babylon, placed mid-way. This gentleman, who dreams of
life in nubibus, has evidently very elevated notions, but he
ought to have completed his ideas with a series of balloons,
allowing the weary twelfth story lodger to make an easy
ascent to his aerial dwelling. •
There was a time when French railways procured all their
engines from abroad, but they have now so far progressed,
that they not only supply their own wants, but are able to
send their plant to foreign markets.
Among the many fine specimens exhibited, we may men-
tion a locomotive of the Orleans Railway for goods train
with ten coupled wheels and deviating axletrees, enabling it to
means of a wire, with another needle, which repeats the
design, in all its details over a cylinder covered with vegetable
paper.
The exhibition of the Imperial Admiralty comprises a
great variety of models, among which we remark, an iron-
plated coast-guard vessel or monitor, somewhat resembling
two ships turned over each other ; several iron frigates, some
with revoling towers, others armed with the terrible ram ;. a
floating battery which is sunk almost to the water's edge ; a
cavalry transport ship, with stables for five hundred horses,
and a very complete plan of the Mediterranean and Atlantic
Dock-yards.
The Ministry of Public Works has also some designs and
models of great interest to engineers.
A plan which requires less special knowledge to be under-
stood, is that of the aerodrome, invented by a Mr. Borie, who,
not finding Parisian houses sufficiently high, proposes to give
them a dozen stories with suspended gardens, like those of
Babylon, placed mid-way. This gentleman, who dreams of
life in nubibus, has evidently very elevated notions, but he
ought to have completed his ideas with a series of balloons,
allowing the weary twelfth story lodger to make an easy
ascent to his aerial dwelling. •
There was a time when French railways procured all their
engines from abroad, but they have now so far progressed,
that they not only supply their own wants, but are able to
send their plant to foreign markets.
Among the many fine specimens exhibited, we may men-
tion a locomotive of the Orleans Railway for goods train
with ten coupled wheels and deviating axletrees, enabling it to