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Title: Official catalogue and guide book to the Pan-American exposition ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.)
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Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y., C. Ahrhart
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress
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est methods andapparatus for heating cars, and the maintenance of high temperaturesunder particular conditions; the heating of flat irons, cooking and bak-ing by electricity; electric forging, welding, stamping, tempering andbrazing, showing by the most recent devices the wide applicaton of elec-tricity to the working of metals. Group 9—Electro-metallurgy and electro-chemistry. Group 10—Electric telegraph, electric signals, wireless telegraphy. Group 11—The telephone and its appliances. Group 12—Electricity in surgery, dentistry and therapeutics. Theresults of X-ray work are included in this section. Group 13—History and statistics, progress and development in elec-trical science and construction from its inception, as illustrated by mod-els, drawings, literature or otherwise. Group 14—Electricity in submarine and torpedo work, as used inengineering and warfare. The cost of the building, without ornamentation, was $130,000. 19 The Pan-American Official Catalogue and Guide.
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20 The Pan-American Official Catalogue and Guide. ^MACHINERY AND TRANSPORTATION BUILDING. Southwest of the Court of Fountains and separated from the Manu-factures and Liberal Arts building by the Cascades is the Machineryand Transportation building. It occupies a space 500x350 feet or aboutfour acres. The building is in the form of a hollow square, with arcadeson all sides and an interior court 100x200, where the pumping stationfor the Exposition is located. It was designed by Architects Green &Wicks of Buffalo, N. Y. The roof is of red tile and its cement wallsare tinted with a color scheme of light reds and yellows. The windowsare grilled with iron screens designed after the Spanish rejas of thesixteenth century. As an architectural work the building is a master-piece, in the style of the Spanish Renaissance. The main entrances inthe north and south facades are flanked on either side by tall towershaving open lanterns and an intricate detail of plastic ornamentation.The entrance
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