Exposition Universelle (1878)

The Exposition Universelle of 1878 was the third world's fair which was held in Paris. The Bureau International des Expositions the exhibition afterwards has recognized as the Universal world exhibition7e  . The exhibition lasted from 1 may to 10 november 1878. The exhibition was especially to celebrate the reconstruction of France after theFranco-Prussian War.



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[hide] *1 preparations  ==Preparations[ Edit] == The buildings and land where the exhibition took place were still partly unfinished on opening day, many political problems prevented the French Government attention to the preparations. On 1 June, a month after the official opening, everything was completed.
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 * 3 Exhibitions
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Most of the buildings and sculptures at the exhibition were made of staff, a cheap material that was only used for temporary construction work. It consisted of jute fiber,cement , plasterand.

On the right bank of the Seine was built the Palais de Trocadéro for the exhibition. It was a "Moorish" structure with towers of 76 meters high. The building remained until 1937.

The exhibition was illuminated by electric arc lamps, equipped with flow through Grammes Zénobe gramme dynamos. [1] . ==Size[ Edit] == Léon François Chervet, allegorical figure by now atAgde as "Amphitrite"[2] <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The exhibition was many times larger than all previous world exhibitions. The total area had a surface of 267.00 square meters, of which 219,000 square meters was occupied by the main building of the exhibition: the Champ-de-Mars.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The French exhibits names half the field to complete. The rest was distributed among other countries. The exhibitions of the United Kingdom, British India, Canada, Victoria,New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, the Cape Colony and some of the British Crown colonies names together a third of land in. The only major country that was not present at the exhibition was Germany. However, there are a few German paintings shown. The American exhibition was led by a number of Commissioners, includingPierce M.B. Young, a former member of the House of representatives.

<p lang="en" len="126" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">More than 13 million people paid to visit the exhibition, with which the exhibition was a financial success. ==Exhibitions<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The exhibition of fine arts and new machinery was made on large scale. The Avenue des Nations, a 730 metre long Street, was entirely devoted to exhibitions about architecture from almost every European country, and some Asian, African and American countries. The "Gallery of Machines" was an industrial exhibition of among other inventions of Henri de Dion (1828 – 78). Among the many inventions that were to see at the exhibition was Alexander Graham Bell's telephone. Thomas Edison had on display a megaphone and phonograph. International juries shared medals for the best exhibitions. A Dutch invention of Stork, the horizontal compound steam engine, was crowned with gold.

<p lang="en" len="355" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On 30 June, the completed head of the statue of liberty on display in the garden of the Trocadéro, while other pieces were in the Champ-de-Mars.

<p lang="en" len="586" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">One of the most popular attractions was a public exhibition, "negro village" called, where 400 indigenous people were "exhibited". ==Meetings<span class="mw-editsection" len="349" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During the exhibition there were also a couple of meetings and conferences have been held to reach an agreement on international standards. French writer Victor Hugo led the Congress for the protection of literary works. This Conference led to the formulation of the international copyright laws. Other gatherings were meant to standardize the global postal services between different countries, and introducing the braille system as a tool for blind people. ==In fiction<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau's time travel novel El Anacronópete starts with a lecture in the exposition.
 * Eoin Colfer's novel Airman begins with the birth of the protagonist (Conor Broekhart) during the exhibition.