ITALIAN EXHIBITS.
FOR CHICAGO FAIR.
LEONARDO DA VINCI'S AIR MODEL. J Italy's participation in the coming Chicago World Exhibition will not be confined by General Balbo's flight there with 33 seaplanes, which will swoop dojvn upon Lake Michigan on the opening day. Exhibits ranging from prehistoric times to the latest Marconi inventions have been shipped off to Chicago from Rome. Aviation is well represented, from a model of an aeroplane built according to Leonardo da Vinci's designs, down to the latest seaplane. There will be the first motor made in Italy, which claims to have invented these vehicles, and the last design in Fiat and Alfa Romeo racers. , Models of fortifications and ambuenes invented by Julius Caesar, of his wooden ■bridge over the Rhine, will stand side by side with a miniature of the Mont Cenis tunnel, a modern example of Italian engineering. Prom the valley of the Po come prehistoric daggers made from human thi-h bones. Etruscan tombs, beehive dwelling, Rome's drainage system of 400 B GL will be placed in striking contrast to the latest inventions of Italian genius, __...__.!—i —
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 114, 17 May 1933, Page 9
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