The World's Fair: Or, Children's prize gift book of the Great Exhibition of 1851 : describing the beautiful inventions and manufactures exhibited therein : with pretty stories about the people who have made and sent them : and how they live when at home. — John Shaqi
The World's Fair: Or, Children's prize gift book of the Great Exhibition of 1851 : describing the beautiful inventions and manufactures exhibited therein : with pretty stories about the people who have made and sent them : and how they live when at home.Anonymous
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The World's Fair: Or, Children's prize gift book of the Great Exhibition of 1851 : describing the beautiful inventions and manufactures exhibited therein : with pretty stories about the people who have made and sent them : and how they live when at home.
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Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) -- Juvenile literature
In contrast to this specimen of a great town in a minute space, we
have in front of the transept a wonderful clock, which is kept in
motion by a set of powerful electro magnets, eight in number, on which
is wound a length of twenty-five thousand feet of copper wire. This
gigantic time-keeper sets in motion the immense hands on the principal
dial, which is twenty-four feet in diameter, besides two smaller ones
which are fixed in front of the galleries, at the east and west ends
of the building. I am afraid that it would tire you, were I to attempt
to tell you exactly what electricity is, and must therefore satisfy
your curiosity, for the present, by letting you know that it is caused
by the coming in contact of different substances possessing peculiar
properties, which cause them to vibrate, when they touch.
There is another very curious clock in the Exhibition, which will go
for a hundred years before requiring to be wound up again; and there
is one wheel in it which is said would take ten thousand years to go
round once.
Next there is a case of stuffed birds, which came from Scotland, and
which we cannot help admiring. There are in this case specimens of all
the various kinds of birds which are peculiar to Scotland, neatly and
carefully stuffed; and really they almost look as if they were alive.
Ah, ah! Mister Eagle, you are not so much to be feared now, I think,
as you were when you lived in your lofty home in the Highland
mountains.
And here is another case in which are all the different sorts of
mother-of-pearl buttons that can be imagined; there is every variety
of ornament on the buttons, which look exceedingly brilliant.
This immense block of granite, from Scotland, is not quite so pretty,
though it is, perhaps, more useful; it is twenty feet long, and is a
piece of the finest kind and colour that could be found. Another very
useful thing, also from Scotland, is a large lighthouse bell, managed
so as to ring very loud, to warn any ship that is going too near a
dangerous rock or shoal, near the lighthouse where the bell may be.
Among the more beautiful specimens of industry, there are several
elegant vases made of silver, and of a delicate material called
Parian, which is an imitation of Parian marble; some of them are
ornamented with blue and gold, and others are ornamented with silver.
There is also a splendid tea-service, adorned with charming pictures
of the dear old fables we all know so well,--the "Lion and the Mouse,"
the "Wolf and the Lamb," the "Dog and the Shadow," and others.
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