Worlds Fair

aka Expo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_Fair

been happening every 5 years since 2000

Some "key" cases:

• 1851: London Great Exhibition (with the Crystal Palace) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Exhibition
• 1862: London International Exhibition: Exhibitions included such large pieces of machinery as parts of Charles Babbage's analytical engine, cotton mills, and maritime engines by the firm of Henry Maudslay, as well as a range of smaller goods including fabrics, rugs, sculptures, furniture, plates, silver and glass wares, and wallpaper. The work shown by William Morris's decorative arts firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. attracted much notice. The exposition also introduced the use of caoutchouc for rubber production and the Bessemer Steel process for steel manufacture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1862_International_Exhibition
• 1889: Paris - Eiffel Tower http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1889)
• 1893: Chicago Columbian Exposition (cf Devil In The White City) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition
• 1933: Chicago Century of Progress International Exposition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_Progress (mentioned in Polostan)
• 1939: NYC "Building the World of Tomorrow" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_New_York_World%27s_Fair
  • presented in NYPL Biblion project http://exhibitions.nypl.org/biblion/worldsfair/
  • written about in David Gelernter's 1939: The Lost World Of The Fair ISBN:0028740025
• 1962: Seattle, last one in the US! Century 21 Exposition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_21_Exposition got only 9M visitors
• 2025: Osaka Japan Expo 2025 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2025 25M visitors, vs 64M Osaka had in 1970.