This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ... cars were drawn by Trevithick's locomotive in 1804. These constitute perhaps the most interesting railway relics in the world; unless exception be made in favor of Stephenson's ' Rocket" in the South Kensington Museum, London. The amount of work and expense represented in this section of the Museum is very great. It ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ... cars were drawn by Trevithick's locomotive in 1804. These constitute perhaps the most interesting railway relics in the world; unless exception be made in favor of Stephenson's ' Rocket" in the South Kensington Museum, London. The amount of work and expense represented in this section of the Museum is very great. It was undertaken in time to save many valuable relics which would soon have disappeared. The Museum will welcome additions to this division from authentic sources and will be obliged for information tending to further its accuracy and completeness. It is believed that there is here the nucleus at least of a collection which will be not only unique among the museums ol the world, but of the highest practical value to the people. The abundant success that attended the execution of the elaborate and sweeping plans of the Department of Transportation Exhibits, gave to the Chief of that Department deserved prominence among the executive officers of the Exposition. That the Museum to-day possessesthe marvellous collection of vehicles, crafts and other means of transportation upon land and water, representing the methods of all nations and all climes, is because from the inception of the project to establish an institution of this character as a memorial to the Exposition and the men who made it, and until the work was done, Mr. Willard A. Smith assumed his part of the labor with the high inspiration and devotion that characterized his labors for the department over which he presided. EXPOSITION MEMORIAL STATUARY. The Rotunda of the main building of the Museum is devoted to an artistic memorial of Columbus and of the Columbian Exposition. The center-piece--the statue of the great discoverer consecrating the New World--at once attracts attention bot...
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