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requisite scope for a pleasing variety of embellishments, by which all 

 monotony is avoided, and allows a very economical use of the ground. 



It was the intention of the officers of the Association, that the build- 

 ing should be finished and the Exhibition opened by the first of May, 

 1853. Many delays necessarily intervened, and the opening was con- 

 sequently deferred until the 14th of July, on which day the Exhibition 

 was formally opened with appropriate services, in the presence of the 

 President of the United States, and many distinguished men of Amer- 

 ica and Europe. 



The details of the Exhibition, with the collecting and arranging the 

 various departments, was intrusted to the following gentlemen : Gen- 

 eral Superintendents, Capts. Dupont and Davis, U. S. A. ; Secretary, 

 J. M. Batchelder, Esq. ; Arrangement of Space and Classification, Sam- 

 uel Webber, Esq. ; Department of Mineralogy and Chemistry, Prof. 

 B. Silliman, Jr. ; Director of Machinery, J. E. Holmes ; Director of 

 Agricultural Implements, B. P. Johnson, Esq. ; Director of Sculpture, 

 Felix Piatti ; Director of Textile Fabrics, Edward Vincent. 



The total amount of space on the floor, occupied by different coun- 

 tries for exhibition, exclusive of the naves, was about 152,000 square 

 feet, of which 94,102 is on the ground floor, and 59,000 is in the gal- 

 lery. The total amount of space occupied by foreign exhibitors was 

 98,749 square feet. The total number of exhibitors from abroad was 

 about 3000. In the United States Department the number of 

 exhibitors was about 2000, the largest proportion of whom were inclu- 

 ded under the following classes : Mineralogy, Metallurgy and Mining ; 

 Machinery and Tools ; Agricultural Implements ; Hardware; and the 

 Fine Arts. The number of persons contributing was about one-fourth 

 that of the London Exhibition. 



NOVELTIES OF THE NEW YORK INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. 



To attempt to describe, or briefly notice a majority of the multitude 

 of new, ingenious and useful inventions exhibited within the New 

 York Crystal Palace, would be impossible within the limits of the 

 present work. The following notices, however, abridged from the 

 reports given in the New York Tribune, Scientific American, Put- 

 nam's Industrial Record, and various other publications, will be found 

 to include the most important of the mechanical novelties exhibited. 



One of the most interesting features of the Exhibition, was the 

 number and variety of the machines and implements intended for per- 

 fecting or economizing the various processes of agriculture. A like 

 collection has never probably been seen before, the whole presenting 

 a striking illustration of the great employment of the American peo- 

 ple, and of the amount of ingenuity and skill which has been made sub- 

 servient to this branch of industry. In no other department was the 

 Exhibition more National and American than in this. 



The following inventions were among those deemed particularly 

 worthy of notice. 



Improved Feed Mill. This invention of Sherlock and Blackbill, 

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