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

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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
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