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HALL 76. 
METALLURGY OF IRON AND STEEL. 
The Metallurgical Collection is rich in examples of the great 
work done by the iron founders and metal manufacturers of Ger- 
many, Sweden, Spain, England, and America. 
Many of the best obiects from the great Stumm exhibit of 
the Exposition, including the statue of Vulcan in the East Court, 
are preserved in this Hall. 
Case l.~An exhibit of English saw plates, gear wheels, 
wrenches, cutters, and bars of tool-steel, from Jessop and Sons 
These are examples of “Sheffield steel.” 
In the lower part of the case are large pigs of iron fron Nor- 
way and Sweden, also crushed wheels and twisted bars of iron and 
steel. 
Case 2. — Sections of steel bars, rails and structural beams, 
from Spain, donated by Sociedad de Altos Hornos y Fabricas de 
Hierro y Acerro de Bilbao. (The Bilbao Iron and Steel Manu- 
facturing and Blast Furnace Co). 
Case 2 A. — Explosives. Fac-similes (non-explosive) of gun- 
powders of various kinds; the materials of which they are made; 
dynamite of various strengths. 
Case 3. — A collection of all grades of scrap iron, steel and 
metal. It contains samples of different grades of iron and metal 
as it is sorted on leaving the scrap iron dealer’s yard. 
Cases 4 and 5. — Sections of rails and beams from the fac- 
tory of Gebr. Stumm, Germany. Also specirhens of fractures 
produced by several methods upon different qualities of steel. 
The quality may be estimated by the appearance of the fractures. 
At the ends of the cases are specimens showing the successive 
stages of rolling an ingot into a rail or beam, also the method of 
crushing a number of bars of iron into one solid beam. 
Case 6 . — Fractures of pig iron, spiegeleisen, etc., showing the 
grade of the metal. 
Case 7. — Samples of wire, wire rope, and cable. 
No. 8. — “Specimens of rolled wrought iron and steel worked 
cold.” These are from the factory of Stumm & Co., and are ex- 
actly as exhibited by them at the Columbian Exposition. 
