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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15. oldal
... meeting and subsequent experience only served to con- vince the writer that " our manufacturers only needed a fair explanation of the question to take it up very warmly . " With this conviction , it would appear that in due time Mr ...
... meeting and subsequent experience only served to con- vince the writer that " our manufacturers only needed a fair explanation of the question to take it up very warmly . " With this conviction , it would appear that in due time Mr ...
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... meeting of the British Association to be held at Plymouth in that year . Nothing , however , was done until 1844 , when the exhibition partook of the polytechnic character of those in connection with other Mechanics ' Institutions . The ...
... meeting of the British Association to be held at Plymouth in that year . Nothing , however , was done until 1844 , when the exhibition partook of the polytechnic character of those in connection with other Mechanics ' Institutions . The ...
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... meeting on the 16th of June , 1845 , of a Committee convened to carry the proposition into effect ; when a positive beginning was made in the matter , for in addition to a loan of £ 500 placed at the disposal of the Council by Mr ...
... meeting on the 16th of June , 1845 , of a Committee convened to carry the proposition into effect ; when a positive beginning was made in the matter , for in addition to a loan of £ 500 placed at the disposal of the Council by Mr ...
27. oldal
... meeting of the British Association held in that town , for it proved beyond a doubt that the central portion of the kingdom was fully awakened to the importance of a thorough display of British industry and resources . And while giving ...
... meeting of the British Association held in that town , for it proved beyond a doubt that the central portion of the kingdom was fully awakened to the importance of a thorough display of British industry and resources . And while giving ...
28. oldal
... meeting of the British Association , and enjoyed throughout the whole period it was opened an unequalled popularity : upwards of 100,000 visitors honoured it with their pre- sence ; 80,000 paid for single admissions ; 1534 season ...
... meeting of the British Association , and enjoyed throughout the whole period it was opened an unequalled popularity : upwards of 100,000 visitors honoured it with their pre- sence ; 80,000 paid for single admissions ; 1534 season ...
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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...