Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851: Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue
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www.e-rara.ch Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851: official descriptive and illustrated catalogue Weltausstellung 1851, London London, 1851 ETH-Bibliothek Zürich Shelf Mark: Rar 4777 Persistent Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.3931/e-rara-21827 Saxony. www.e-rara.ch Die Plattform e-rara.ch macht die in Schweizer Bibliotheken vorhandenen Drucke online verfügbar. Das Spektrum reicht von Büchern über Karten bis zu illustrierten Materialien – von den Anfängen des Buchdrucks bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. e-rara.ch provides online access to rare books available in Swiss libraries. The holdings extend from books and maps to illustrated material – from the beginnings of printing to the 20th century. e-rara.ch met en ligne des reproductions numériques d’imprimés conservés dans les bibliothèques de Suisse. 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Son statut juridique et ses conditions d'utilisation sont précisés dans sa notice détaillée. Pour de plus amples informations, voir [Link] Condizioni di utilizzo Questo documento può essere scaricato gratuitamente. Il tipo di licenza e le condizioni di utilizzo sono indicate nella notizia bibliografica del singolo documento. Per ulteriori informazioni vedi anche [Link] / . <•; Q Dr . Woldemar Seyepaeth , LD.D., Commissioner for Jloyal Saxony, 91 Piccadilly . A very complete collection of industrial products and of the materials constituting tlieir basis is exhibited by this kingdom . Although the classified arrangement adopted in the United Kingdom has not been strictly observed in this case as in that of other foreign countries , still the arrangement of exhibitors in the Catalogue generally accords with the succession of the Thirty Classes, and consequently admits of ready comparison with other portions of this work . Among the raw materials are specimens of flax water -retted , and of yarn spun from it . The speciments of cobalt and nickel must attract the attention of all mineralogists and of others interested in the commercial and scientific application of these important metals . The former is principally used for the intense brilliancy of its oxide, the latter as a good substitute for colour , in combination with other metals . The cobalt colours are well shown in a series of specimens derived from the lloyal Porcelain Works at Meissen . The nickel , cobalt ores, and colours are from one of the very few known sources of the former metal , the mine at Pchneiberg . A few machines are exhibited —of these one is for planing type , one for boring , one for casting type , and one for sweeping narrow flues of chimneys . Among the philosophical instruments exhibited is an electro -magnetic telegraph similar to those employed on the telegraphic lines of Saxony and Bavaria : an electro -dynamometer , and specimens of watches made on the Swiss system , are also exhibited . The collection of musical instruments includes string and wind instruments of various kinds , harmonicas , pianofortes , etc. The textile manufactures are extremely well represented , especially in the woollen department , in which the long -established reputation of the Saxon manufacturers appears to be fully supported . This may be better conceived by the statement of the number of exhibitors of articles either entirely of woollen , or partially , as in worsted , their number is fifty -nine . The total number of Saxon exhibitors is only one hundred and eighty - eight : this proportion , therefore , of exhibitors of articles belonging to only one class, strongly indicates the pre¬ vailing direction in which the national industry of this kingdom exercises its activity . The producers of oil¬ cloth , and of that kind of it which is used for table -covers , are also numerous . A very valuable and extremely attractive collection of objects is that exhibited by the lloyal Saxon Manufactory of China , the works of which have long been carried on on an extensive scale at Meissen . The vases , figures , and busts are delicately executed , and exhibit the excellent quality of this beautiful porcelain . An attractive object is a porcelain mirror frame painted in colours , with flowers in relievo . Specimens of types and typography are also exhi¬ bited . Among the sculptures are one or two figures in Carrara marble .—11. E . 1 Sommer , Charles , Sornzig, near Miigeln—Producer . 3 Gaetzschmann , William , Zittaw—Manufacturer . Specimens of flax cultivated in the Belgian manner , Flax, watered and swingled, also partly heckled, in five water-retted and swingled, also swingled and heckled. different qualities. Patterns of extra fine yarn , spun from the flax. These, with the flaxes exhibited by Messrs. Watteyne and G-aetz- 4 Thieme -Widtmarkter APueschel , Peudnitz , schmann, are intended to show the progress made in the near Leipzig—Manufacturers . last five years in the culture of flax and its preparation in Bleached sponges, fine and common quality . Saxony. 5 Kunze , Frederic , 1lochlitz—Manufacturer . 2 Watteyne , Joseph , IAchtenberg, near Freiberg —Manufacturer . Varnished leather . Black varnished calves’ leather for Patterns of swingled flax, cultivated in the Belgian the use of shoemakers and belt-makers ; the same descrip¬ manner , and water-retted . tion, sheep’s leather . SAXONY. 1105 6 Jordan & Timaeus , Dresden—Manufacturers . cations are given by moving the arm the nearest way,- The hand, Assortment of dessert chocolates, consisting of figures, forward or backward, to the intended field. fruits , and numerous other objects, partly brown, partly which notes the signs, turns always to the right . At the coloured ; ornaments for dining-tables, nips, Christmas ordinary speed of the machine eight engines can be given presents , &c. every second.] Chocolates and cocoa masses, in packets, as sold. 16 Leyser , —, Leipzig—Manufacturer . —Manufacturer . 7 Hardegen , G-ustav , Leipzig Electrodynamometer , with mirror and telescope. For Clack printing -ink for hand presses, and for machines. measuring the intensity of the galvanic current . 8 Jagodzinsky , Anton , Leipzig—Manufacturer . Lange , Adolph , Glashiitte—Manufacturers . oil-varnish . Calcined soot. Printing -ink for 17 Strong , by division of machines and presses. Matches , manufactured as in Switzerland labour. A box with a systematic arrangement of all 9 The Koval Saxon Cobalt and Nickel Works , parts of a watch, and a series of watch movements in Schneeberg (Agent, 33. Biggs, 3 Lawrence Pount - four different stages of manufacture . Watch cases and ney Hill)—Producers . engraved patterns . Ten watches, anchor escapements, , of of twenty -eight specimens of cobalt blue, enamel chronometer balance. Three, with eight stones. Two A series an arrange¬ blue, smalt and cobalt green. Metallic bismuth . Metallic them in gold, eight in silver cases, one with nickel in cubes.—This is stated to be the oldest establish¬ ment for winding-up the spring and regulating the hands, ment of the kind in the world. without opening the case. [Nickel is now so largely employed in the manufaciure , MarlcneuJcirchen of German silver, both in England and other countries, 18 Klemm , George & August and Son)—Manufacturers . that its extraction from the ore has become an object of (Agents, I . D. Kohler Stringed instruments . Bresciano counter bass and vio¬ . This metal is not , however, great commercial importance loncello. Violin. (Paola Albani.) Amati , Stainer , and in operation in only a few known abundant , and mines are cord rim violins. Violin in the antique style. Bass localities where it has been found. It is generally asso¬ viol. Guitar . Violin bow, with silver ornaments . Pat¬ ciated, as in the specimens exhibited from Schneeberg, with tern book of all the appendages of the violin. cobalt. Prom other impurities it is separated by roasting , Wind instruments . Chromatic horn , in E ; ditto but from cobalt generally by a chemical process of solution trumpet , in G, after the newest style. and precipitation .—K. E .] [The manufacture of musical instruments for sale occu¬ thousands of hands in the Upper Voigtland , 10 The Koval Saxon China Manueactory , pies many Meissen—Producer . and is remarkable, not only for the cheapness of its pro¬ wind instru¬ Complete series of ultramarine blue. ductions , but also for the excellence of the ments . Jacob Stainer , whose violins rivalled those of 11 Schmidt & Co., Daubnitz , near Lommartzsch Cremona, lived at Innspruck in the Tyrol, 1647. His —Proprietors . signature was “ Jacobus Stainer . In absam prope :—No. 1, for common use in quarries, Safety-fusees Oenipontem 1647.” Bresciano was a noted bass maker. with black cover, 1000 yards in one