Exhibition of Industrial Arts and Manufacturers
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The Exhibition of Industrial Arts and Manufacturers was held in 1849 in Birmingham[1] between 3 September until 15 December 1849.[2] It was held in a temporary two storey building in the grounds of the former Bingley House.[2]
Visitors
There were 100 000 visitors, including Charles Darwin and Robert Stephenson.[2] Prince Albert, who was already planning an 1851 exhibition with Henry Cole, visited on 1 November,[2] and got the model for the Great Exhibition in 1851.[3]
Displays
There were 131 displays in the main hall.[2] There was a 2 tier, 20 feet high candelabrum from Osler.[2][4] Hardman & Co., in collaboration with Augustus Pugin displayed church furniture and stained glass.[2] Chance Brothers showed three large painted windows, intended eventually for the church at Warstone Lane Cemetery.[2] Cadbury Brothers showed cocoa, chicory, homeopathic cocoa, chocolate including vanilla eating chocolate.[2]
References
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- First Exhibition (1760)
Great Britain and Ireland
- Exposition of British Society
- Exhibition of Industrial Arts and Manufacturers (Birmingham, 1849)
- Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations (London, 1851)
- Irish Industrial Exhibition (Cork, 1852)
- Great Industrial Exhibition (1853) (Dublin)
- Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester 1857
- 1862 International Exhibition (London)
- International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures (Dublin, 1865)
- Annual International Exhibition (London, 1871–1874)
- Dublin Exhibition of Arts, Industries and Manufactures (1872)
- International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures (Dublin, 1874)
- International Fisheries Exhibition (London, 1883)
- First International Forestry Exhibition
- International Inventions Exhibition
- Colonial and Indian Exhibition (1886)
- International Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art
- Royal Mining Engineering Jubilee Exhibition
- International Exhibition of Navigation, Commerce and Industry
- American Exhibition (1887)
- International Agricultural Exhibition (Kilburn, 1879)
- Royal Jubilee Exhibition
- International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry (Glasgow 1888)
- International Exhibition of Science, Art & Industry (Edinburgh 1890)
- Greater Britain Exhibition
- Glasgow International Exhibition (1901)
- Cork International Exhibition
- Naval, Shipping and Fisheries Exhibition
- Imperial Austrian Exhibition
- Irish International Exhibition
- Franco-British Exhibition
- Imperial International Exhibition
- Japan–British Exhibition
- Coronation Exhibition
- Festival of Empire
- Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art and Industry
- Latin-British Exhibition
- Anglo-American Exhibition
- Bristol International Exhibition
- Universal Exhibition (Nottingham)
- International Rubber, Tropical Products and Allied Industries ExhibitionInternational Exhibition of Rubber and Other Tropical Products
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- British Empire Exhibition
- North East Coast Exhibition
- Empire Exhibition, Scotland
- Festival of Britain
- Millennium Dome
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