Official catalogue of the British section.

  • Great Britain. Executive Commission, Philadelphia International Exhibition (1876)
Date:
1876
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    DEPARTMENT I.—MINING AND METALLURGY. MINERALS, ORES, BUILDING STONES, AND MINING- PRODUCTS. Class 100.— Minerals, ores, etc. Metallic and non- metallic minerals, exclusive of coal and oil. Collections of minerals systematically arranged ; collections of ores and associated minerals ; geo- logical collections. Class 101.—Mineral combustibles. Coal, anthracite, semi-bituminous and bituminous, coal-waste and pressed coal; albert ite, asphalt, and asphaltie limestone ; bitumen, mineral tar, crude petroleum. Class 102.—Building stones, marbles, slates, etc. Rough, hewn, sawed, or polished, for buildings, bridges, Avails, or other constructions, or for interior decoration, or for furniture. Marble—white, black, or coloured—used in building, decoration, statuary, monuments, or furniture, in blocks or slabs not manufactured. Class 103.—Lime, cement, and hydraulic cement, raw and burned, accompanied by specimens of the crude rock or material used, also artificial stone, concrete, beton. Specimens of lime mortar and mixtures, with illustrations of the processes of mixing, etc. Hydraulic and other cement. Beton mixtures and results, with illustrations of the processes. Artificial stone for building purposes, building blocks, cornices, etc. Artificial stone mixtures, for pavements, walls, or ceilings. Plasters, mastics, etc. Class 104.—Clays, kaolin, sllex, and other materials for the manufacture of porcelain, faience, and of glass, bricks, terra-cotta and tiles, and fire- brick. Refractory stones for lining furnaces, sandstone, steatite, etc., and refractory furnace materials. Class 105.—Graphite, crude and refined ; for polish- ing purposes; for lubricating, electrotyping, photography, pencils, etc. Class 106.—Lithographic stones, hones, whetstones, grindstones, grinding and polishing materials, sand quartz, garnet, crude topaz, diamond, cor- undum, emery in the rock and pulverized, and in assorted sizes and grades. Class 107.—Mineral waters, artesian well water, natural brines, saline and alkaline efflorescences and solutions. Mineral fertilizing substances, gypsum, phosphate of lime, marls, shells, co- prolites, etc., not manufactured. METALLURGICAL PRODUCTS. ('lass 110.—Precious metals. Class 111.—Iron and steel in the pig, ingot, and bar, plates and sheets, with specimens of slags, fluxes, residues, and products of working. Class 112.—Copper in ingots, bars, and rolled, with specimens illustrating its various stages of produc- tion. Class 113.—Lead, zinc, antimony, and other metals, the result of extractive processes. Class 114.—Alloys used as materials, brass, nickel, silver, solder, etc. MINE ENGINEERING—MODELS, MAPS, AND SECTIONS. Class 120.—Surface and underground surveying and plotting. Projection of underground work, loca- tion of shafts, tunnels, etc. Surveys for aque- ducts, and for drainage. Boriug and drilling rocks, shafts, and tunnels, etc. Surveys for aqueducts, and for ascertain- ing the nature and extent of mineral deposits. Construction. Sinking and lining shafts by various methods, driving and timbering tunnels, and the general operations of opening, stopping, and breaking down ore, timbering, lagging, and masonry. Hoisting and delivering at the surface, rock, ore, or miners. Pumping and draining by engines, buckets, or by adils. Ventilation and lighting. Subaqueous mining, blasting, etc. Hydraulic mining, and the various processes] and methods of sluicing and washing auriferous gravel, and other superficial deposits. Quarrying. i Class 121,—Models of mines, of veins, etc.