The Great Exhibition
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A review essay from the North American Review (October 1852) on the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, based on the Official Catalogue, the Lectures of the Society of Arts and John Timbs's Year-Book. The author argues that the Exhibition showed few real novelties, worked more as a giant shop-window than as a scientific collection, and drew fewer foreign visitors than expected. He disputes the lecturers' claim that science drove industrial progress, citing the steam engine, ironmaking, the power loom and cotton machinery as the work of practical workmen. He also compares Indian and Turkish textiles favorably with European manufactures, and ends with digressions on juggling and mesmerism.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- October 1852
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 30
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