International Inventions Exhibition
International Inventions Exhibition | |
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One of the gold medal certificates awarded at the exhibition (this to Hick, Hargreaves and Co. for their Corliss engine supplementary governor & automatic barring engine.). | |
Overview | |
BIE-class | Unrecognized exposition |
Name | International Inventions Exhibition |
Visitors | three and three-quarters million |
Organized by | Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales (president of the organising committee) |
Location | |
Country | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
City | London |
Timeline | |
Opening | 4 May 1885 |
The International Inventions Exhibition was a world's fair held in South Kensington in 1885.[1][2] As with the earlier exhibitions in a series of fairs in South Kensington following the Great Exhibition, Queen Victoria was patron and her son Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales, was president of the organising committee.[2] It opened on 4 May[3] and three and three-quarters of a million people had visited when it closed 6 months later.[4]
Countries participating included Austria-Hungary, Italy, Japan and the United States as well as the hosts, the United Kingdom.[2]
Attractions included pleasure gardens, fountains and music as well as inventions.[4] One series of concerts including old instruments[5] from Belgium. Other historical exhibits included five heliographs by Niépce[6] with modern photographers such as Captain Thomas Honywood also being present.[1]
Inventions included folding tables,[7] the Sussex trug, lacquer covered wire from OKI,[8] a meter from Ferranti,[9] a 38-stop organ equipped with a new floating-lever pneumatic action,[3] and Philip Cardew won a gold medal for his hot-wire galvanometer, or voltmeter.[10]
See also
- Expo 91: 1991 World's fair for young inventors
- Henry Willis & Sons for more organ information
- International Fisheries Exhibition 1883
- International Health Exhibition 1884
References
- ^ a b "Horsham Photographers". Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- ^ a b c Scaife W G S (1999). "The Inventions Exhibition in London 1885". From Galaxies to Turbines: Science, Technology and the Parsons Family. p. 596. doi:10.1201/9781420046922.ch1. ISBN 9780750305822.
- ^ a b "EDWIN H. LEMARE (by Nelson Barden) - Part One Becoming the Best". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- ^ a b Heroes of Invention. Technology, Liberalism and British Identity 1750-1914. p. 374.
- ^ "Dolmetsch online". Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- ^ "The First Photograph - The Discovery". Archived from the original on 6 February 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- ^ "results". Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- ^ "1874 - 1939 – Corporate Information – OKI Global". Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- ^ Wilson J F (1991). Ferranti and the British electrical industry, 1864-1930. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-7190-2369-9.
- ^ Vetch, Robert Hamilton (1912). "Cardew, Philip" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 313–314.
External links
- https://archive.org/details/b22449152/page/n4
- Contains an image of the exhibition buildings
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