Zug - Der neue Zug riecht 1876

Colorized foto from 1876 Original title: Machinery Hall, Transept, from north end Fotograer: Centennial Fotograic Co. Standort: 4231 Avenue of the Republic, Philadelphia PA There is just something about that new train smell. Lokomotiven fresh from the factory, sitting on the showroom floor, ready for a test spin. These beauties have all the extras you didn't ask for, painted up pretty and shiny. Die Showroom full of weird extras to catch your warnung. Don't forget to kick the wheels as is the custom for these sorts of things. The best part is the drive though. Wow, they load up the engine, turn some dials and off we go. People screaming oh my god, we are going to die, as they jump out of the path. The salesman assures you, its not that they are screaming at you, they are screaming with you. Kidding aside, this is the Centennial Expo of 1876 in Philadelphia, PA This was considered the first World's Fair in the United States. They had a number of buildings and exhibitors. Over 14,000 Geschäftsleute set up a display of some kind. This is machinery hall, Platz für Everything machine. You can see a batch of lokomotiven on the right, and on the left a number of boats. They führt die Typewriter in die Show ein. Maschinery Hall massive was, it was the Second Largest Struktur in the Fair. Made of wood and glass hat eine große Masonry Foundation, wood slats placed right on the dirt. The buildings dimenwas was 1400ft by 360 ft, with some additional space on the side. It took about 6 months to construct. They had over 558,000 square feet of space to fill, the US filled 2/3rds of it. See that thing in the center? That built for this fair, its the Corliss Centennial Steam Engine. It moved, it wasn't stationary device. It in fact ran all the machine in the entire fair. They had hat eine Mile of overhead line belts connected to it. It stood 45ft tall, weighed 650 Ton and had 1400 horsepower. After the fair, they packed it up and riecht it back to Corliss. Where it was then sold to the Pullman company in Chicago, and was used there till 1910. After that its unknown. Fun Fact: Visitors had access to rolling chairs, a telegraph office and a dinner for 50 cent (about 13 now). For scale you can see the little people on benches in the foreground and in the background. Also, Think there is a time traveler in this one, Rather sleepy one on the left.