International Inventions Exhibition
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 Prince Albert the 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] and a 38-stop organ equipped with a new floating-lever pneumatic action.[3]
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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.).
See also
- Henry Willis & Sons for more organ information
References
- 1 2 "Horsham Photographers". Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- 1 2 3 Scaife W G S. From Galaxies to Turbines: Science, Technology and the Parsons Family. p. 596. ISBN 9780750305822. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- 1 2 "EDWIN H. LEMARE (by Nelson Barden) - Part One Becoming the Best". Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- 1 2 Heroes of Invention. Technology, Liberalism and British Identity 1750-1914. p. 374.
- ↑ "Dolmetsch online". Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- ↑ "The First Photograph - The Discovery". Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- ↑ "results". Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- ↑ "1874 - 1939 – Corporate Information – OKI Global". Retrieved 24 March 2012.
- ↑ Wilson J F. Ferranti and the British electrical industry, 1864-1930. p. 27. ISBN 0-7190-2369-6.