Previous World Fairs
The Great Exhibition 1851 |
The first world fair was hosted by London in 1851. The purpose of the fair was similar to the one soon to be hosted in Chicago. London wanted to show the growth they've made industriallyIt was the first great international exhibition, and it was intended to raise the level of industrial design and of course to display production and acquire new and larger markets. It was open in Hyde Park for five months and fifteen days. Over six million visitors came to see some fourteen thousand exhibitors, of which Great Britain supplied nearly half.
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The Exposition Universelle was held only a few years before the Columbian Exposition, and the success of it put a lot of pressure on the architects for the Chicago fair. The builders knew that they had to find a way to surpass the Paris' main centerpiece: the Eiffel Tower.In Paris on the Champ de Mars, France opened the Exposition Universelle, a world's fair so big and glamorous and so exotic that visitors came away believing no exposition could surpass it. At the heart of the exposition stood a tower of iron that rose one thousand feet into the sky, higher than any man-made structure on earth. The tower not only assured the eternal fame of its designer, Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, but also offered graphic proof that France had edged out the United States for dominance in the realm of iron and steel, despite the Brooklyn Bridge, the Horseshoe Curve, and other undeniable accomplishments of American engineers
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Exposition Universelle of 1889
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