Excerpt from World's Fair, Louisiana Purchase, St. Louis, 1904 There are fourteen permanent railroad tracks, besides feet_of exhibition space, in the building, Every known means of conveyance Will be found here, from the old-time stage coach and the first steam engine to the latest contrivance in automobiles, steam and electric engines, motor cycles, and air ships. Full trains of cars, with the fastest engines known, Will be exhibited. The latest designs in street cars and those used for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.