A popular narrative of the origin, history, progress, and prospects of the great industrial exhibition, 1851James Gilbert, 1851 - 180 oldal Describes the history of the Great Exhibition including how it was set up and preceding exhibitions of manufactures, in particular the Exhibition of Manufactures, Birmingham 1849 and the Paris Exposition of 1849. Matthew Digby Wyatt's "A report of the eleventh French Exposition of the products of industry" is extensively quoted on p.33-56; the work of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Commission on the Exhibition of 1851 is highlighted; the names of many individuals involved in the planning are given and some are quoted; other subjects discussed include the exhibits, the building, prizes, the official catalogue and admission charges. |
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... house of the Society . This the statement already quoted calls " the first of any magnitude . " + If this phrase merely refers to the Society of Arts , it is well ; but if it is meant to convey the impression that this was the first ...
... house of the Society . This the statement already quoted calls " the first of any magnitude . " + If this phrase merely refers to the Society of Arts , it is well ; but if it is meant to convey the impression that this was the first ...
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... House , * within the grounds * South - west of the town of Birmingham , and near the road leading to Dudley and Kidderminster , is Bingley House , late the residence of James Lloyd , Esq . , by whose family it was erected , and where ...
... House , * within the grounds * South - west of the town of Birmingham , and near the road leading to Dudley and Kidderminster , is Bingley House , late the residence of James Lloyd , Esq . , by whose family it was erected , and where ...
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... House has been mentioned as this site . Be this as it may , such a promise was made , for " in the beginning of ... Houses of Parliament by the Council of the Society of Arts , requesting their co - operation in the same great object ...
... House has been mentioned as this site . Be this as it may , such a promise was made , for " in the beginning of ... Houses of Parliament by the Council of the Society of Arts , requesting their co - operation in the same great object ...
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... house and gardens of the Maison d'Orsay , Rue de Varennes , No. 667. In looking over the list of speci- mens which composed this Exhibition , we must be struck by its entirely aristocratic nature . The richest furniture and marqueterie ...
... house and gardens of the Maison d'Orsay , Rue de Varennes , No. 667. In looking over the list of speci- mens which composed this Exhibition , we must be struck by its entirely aristocratic nature . The richest furniture and marqueterie ...
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... houses ; and on the increase in the supply , from national resources , of raw silk , of wool , sugar , and of flax : but most earnestly of all did he com- mend to his sovereign's attention the amazing advance which had been made in the ...
... houses ; and on the increase in the supply , from national resources , of raw silk , of wool , sugar , and of flax : but most earnestly of all did he com- mend to his sovereign's attention the amazing advance which had been made in the ...
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89. oldal - THE EXHIBITION of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting point from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.
88. oldal - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the particular features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end to which indeed all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind...
88. oldal - ... placed within the reach of everybody ; thought is communicated with the rapidity, and even by the power, of lightning.
88. oldal - The products of all quarters of the globe are placed at our disposal, and we have only to choose which is the best and the cheapest for our purposes, and the powers of production are intrusted to the stimulus of competition and capital.
88. oldal - ... we are living at a period of most wonderful' transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind. Not a unity which breaks down the limits and levels the peculiar characteristics of the different nations of the earth, but rather a unity, the result and product of those very national varieties and antagonistic qualities.
88. oldal - Whilst formerly the greatest mental energies strove at universal knowledge, and that knowledge was confined to the few, now they are directed on specialities, and in these, again, even to the minutest points...
124. oldal - There is no one circumstance in the history of the manufacturing enterprise of the English nation which places in so strong a light as this its boundless resources in materials, to say nothing of the arithmetical skill in computing at what cost, and in how short a time, those materials could be converted to a special purpose. What was done in those few days ? Two...
89. oldal - ... will produce upon the spectator will be that of deep thankfulness to the Almighty for the blessings which He has bestowed upon us already here below; and the second, the conviction that they can only be realized in proportion to the help which we are prepared to render each other; therefore, only by peace, love, and ready assistance, not only between individuals, but between the nations of the earth.
88. oldal - So man is approaching a more complete fulfilment of that great and sacred mission which he has to perform in this world. His reason being created after the image of God, he has to use it to discover the laws by which the Almighty governs his creation, and by making these laws his standard of action, to conquer nature to his use; himself a divine instrument.
103. oldal - There may be cases in which, on account of the condition of life of the successful competitor (as for instance, in the case of workmen) the grant of a sum of money may be the most appropriate reward of superior excellence ; and there may be other cases of a special and exceptional nature, in which, from a consideration of the expense incurred in the preparation or transmission of a particular article entitled to a prize, combined with a due regard to the condition and pecuniary circumstances of the...