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1909 King’s Booklets The World’s Wonders Allemannia Fire Insurance Company:
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KING'S BOOKLETS World Wide WONDERS COMPLIMENTS OF The Allemannia Fire Insurance Company OF PITTSBURGH, PA. Home Offices, Nos. 345-347-349 Fourth Avenue, PITTSBURGH, PA. SEE THE BACK COVER ----------- 3 -----------
ANCIENT WONDERS OF THE WORLD. TEMPLE OF DIANA, or Artemis, at Ephesus, built about 350 B. C., 343 x 164 ft., with great Ionic monoliths 60 ft. high COLOSSUS AT RHODES, erected in honor of Apollo, 292-280 B.C., by Chares; 105 ft. high; when bioken up (672 A.D.) it took 900 camels to carry away the bronze. MAUSOLEUM at Helicarnassus (353 B.C.) by Artemisia as tomb for her hus- band Mausolus, King of Caria; marble; 441 ft. in circuit; 140 ft. high. STATUE OF ZEUS at Athens; carved ivory and beaten gold, by Phidias ----------- 3 ----------- COPYRIGHT BY MOSES KING 1909 ANCIENT WONDERS OF THE WORLD. PHAROS AT ALEXANDRIA, first lighthouse, a tower built by Ptolemy II, 283 B.C. to light harbor with torches. HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON, built by King Nebuchadnezzar for Queen Amytis, 580 B.C.; raised on tiers of masonry 300 ft. above plain. PYRAMIDS of Egypt, Tombs of the ancient Kings, 70 in number; 2500-2000 B.C.; marvels of structural stone work; Great Pyramid of Cheops, built by 100,000 men in 30 years, covers 13 acres, 482 ft. high (now 451); 82,111,000 cu. ft. solid masonry ----------- 5 ----------- world; 152 clear height; FIRTH OF FORTH BRIDGE, Scotland; greatest cantilever structure; two spans each 1760 ft., longest total length 8296 ft.; metal columns, bases of cantilevers, 12 ft. diameter; withstands stress of 33 tons to sq. in.; built 1889; never outdone MANHATTAN BRIDGE, New York; biggest suspension bridge; span of 1470 ft., with eight railroad tracks, roadway and promenades, supported from two 350-ft. towers by four 21% in. cables, made of 24,000 miles of Roebling steel wires; capacity, 400,000 people an hour ----------- 5 ----------- U. S. BATTLESHIP "NORTH DAKOTA," most powerful fighting craft; 510 ft. long; 85 ft. beam; 19,000 tons; 10 12-in. breech-loading rifles, resistance 25 tons to sq. in., fired by electricity, penetrating 21-in. armor a mile away with 850-lb. projectile; 1907-8. CUNARD LINE STEAMER "LUSITANIA," biggest and swiftest vessel afloat; 710 ft. long; 88-ft. beam; 37.5 ft. draught; 45,000 tons; 68,000 horse power; 4 screws; turbines; average speed, Liverpool to New York, July, 1908 25.01 knots (28.76 miles) an hour ----------- 7 ----------- ST. PETER'S, Rome; biggest church, 162,000 sq. ft.; built by Constantine, A.D. 325; dome, 435 ft. high, by Michelangelo, 1549; facade, 357 x 144 ft. by Paul V., 1608 GRAND OPERA, Paris; largest and most magnificent in world, covering three acres; built 1861-74; cost, $6,000,000; its spaciousness and gorgeous decorations make it a marvel Tian (OFYRIGHT UNDERWOOD UNDERWOOD TAJ MAHAL, Agra, India; largest and most costly mausoleum; white marble, 130 ft. sq., 190 ft. high; minarets, 130 ft.; built by Shah Jehan, 1625-57; 20,000 men on work 22 years VIHARA, at Boro Boedoer, Java; ruins of stupendous Buddhist Temple, built 8th or 9th century, covering 9 acres, 150 ft. high; three miles wonderful historical alto and bas-reliefs ----------- 6 ----------- LEANING TOWER OF PISA, Tuscany; marble campanile, six pillared galleries, begun 1174, finished 1350; 179 ft. high; though 14 ft. out of plumb has withstood earthquakes G PHREE EXER PEEEEEE EIFFEL TOWER, Paris; loftiest structure in world, 984 ft.; base, 336 ft. square; built 1889 by Gustave Eiffel, in Champ-de-Mars, $1,000,- ooo; access to top by elevators or 1,927 steps SINGER BUILDING, New York; wonder in steel frame work; tower, 65 ft. sq., 18,365 tons, anchored to bed rock 92 ft. deep, 47 stor- ies, 612 ft., standing 330 tons wind pressure
METROPOLITAN LIFE BUILDING, New York; tallest offices in world; marble tower, 75 by 90 ft., 52 stories, 700 ft. high, steel frame, pillars at base a ton to the foo ----------- 9 ----------- MILES-BENENT DISAPPEARING GUN, Sandy Hook; biggest ever made; 127 tons: 16-inch projectile, 2,400 lbs., fired at velocity of 2, 300 ft. per sec. METAL PLANER, marvellous and powerful machine built by Niles- Bement-Pond Co., by which metal surfaces are planed smooth as glass AEROPLANE in which Wilbur Wright, of Dayton, Ohio, demon- strated in France, in 1908, feasibility of mechanical aerial navigation SUBMARINE BOAT, 20th century wonder; remains under water for 24 hours, making 9 knots an hour; submergea 26 ft. in 40 seconds ----------- 9 -----------
ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE, fastest; 37 ft. long; 100 tons; 4 mo- tors; 2,200 horse-power; 85 miles an hour; 4,000 h.p. at half speed STEAM POWER PLANT, Port Morris; New York City; 25,000 h. p. generated by turbines in space 35 ft. high by 15 ft. in UNDERM STEAM LOCOMOTIVE, most powerful; Baldwin duplex; 218 tons; 44 ft. long; hauls 10,000 tons of freight in 2-mile train of 250 cars WATER POWER PLANT, Niagara Falls; 310,000 electrical horse power developed by diverting water to 75-ton turbines in pits 178 ft. deep ----------- 11 ----------- COPYRIDET UNDERWOUNDERWOOD PILATUS RAILWAY; Alps; steepest in world; ascent of 5,528 ft. made in 1 hr. 25 min. on track 15,120 ft. long; 4 tunnels; 1889 COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD UNDERWOOD RHOOD GREAT WALL OF CHINA, over 1,500 miles long; begun 326 CHOPECHACHA BRIDGE, B.C.; built chiefly in 10 years, 214-204 B.C.; defence against Tartars Andes, Peru; highest ever built, by ASSOUAN DAM, Nile, Egypt; most stupendous ever built, 6,561 which railroad from Oroya to Lima ft. long; 130 ft. high; billion tons of water impounded; built, '98-03 crosses highest pass, 15,760 ft. deep ----------- 11 ----------- OTIS TRACTION ELEVATOR, made skyscrapers possible; operated on traction principle by ca- bles lifting 4,000-lb. 600 ft. a min. WWW.WA PHONOGRAPH, marvellous contrivance of Edison (1877) by which WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY, voice and other sounds are recorded, preserved, mechanically reproduced mast and operating room; telegraph TELEPHONE CENTRAL, heart of wonderful system by which messages across Atlantic without conversation is held by people miles apart; 4,000,000 phones in U. S. wires; wireless phone 500 miles ----------- 13 ----------- OLD FAITHFUL, Yellowstone, Wyoming; largest geyser, discharg- ing 1,500,000 gals. boiling water every 64 min. in column 150 ft. COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD NIAGARA FALLS, greatest sight; 222,400 cu. ft. of water plunges 167 ft. every second; crest American falls, 1,060 ft.; Horsehoe, 3,010 HARDANGER GLACIER, Norway; grandest in world, flowing from height of 6 540 ft. into Jokul Fiord, moving three feet a day VICTORIA FALLS, Zambesi River, Africa; highest; sheer fall of 400 ft.; crest, 5,580 ft.; roar heard 20 miles; mist seen 7 miles ----------- 13 ----------- COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD UNDERWOOD JENOLAN CAVE, New South Wales; great limestone caverns 113 miles from Sydney; most gorgeous stalactite formations of great size COPYRIGHT HEWHITE GRAND CANYON, Colorado River, Arizona; 300 miles long; 8 MARIPOSA GROVE, Califor- to 10 wide; 6,000 ft. deep; view from Grand View Pt., 13 miles away nia, gigantic redwood trees, most ROCKING STONE OF TANDIL, Argentina, largest ever dis- massive in world; from 275 to 400 covered; weighs 700 tons; so delicately poised that it rocks in the wind ft. high; 25 to 35 ft. in diameter ----------- 14 ----------- Organized April 1st, 1868 Losses Paid to 1909. The Allemannia Fire Insurance Company PITTSBURGH, PA. W. STEINMEYER :: ::: President CHARLES P. KELLERMAN, Secretary CHARLES B. REITER, Asst. Secretary
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