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KING'S BOOKLETS
World Wide Subjects
Thousand&One
MOSES
ING
WORLD'S WONDERS
COMPLIMENTS OF
The Allemannia Fire Insurance Company
OF PITTSBURGH, PA.
Home Offices, Nos. 345-347-349 Fourth Avenue, PITTSBURGH, PA.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 diameter
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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
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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
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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
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OTIS TRACTION ELEVATOR, made skyscrapers possible;
operated on traction principle by ca-
bles lifting 4,000-lb. 600 ft. a min.
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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
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OLD FAITHFUL, Yellowstone,
Wyoming; largest geyser, discharg-
ing 1,500,000 gals. boiling water
every 64 min. in column 150 ft.
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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
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JENOLAN CAVE, New South
Wales; great limestone caverns 113
miles from Sydney; most gorgeous
stalactite formations of great size
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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
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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