General exhibition of patents and designs

Invoice form from the Sprengel company , including a picture of a medal from the 1881 exhibition in Frankfurt

The General Patent and Design Protection Exhibition (also: General German Patent and Design Protection Exhibition ) was an exhibition in Frankfurt am Main in 1881 .

history

The exhibition served to present and advertise commercial products for which a patent or design protection was pending. It was connected with exhibitions on horticulture , art and balneology . During the exhibition, lots were sold for a lottery that had previously been approved by a royal ministry decree of February 25th of that year and for which the exhibition board vouched for with a pre-printed signature . The Frankfurt architect and glass painter Alexander Linnemann designed the exhibition hall .

Exhibitors

Sprengel , chocolate and confectionery manufacturer

Electric train

Werner Siemens electric locomotive at the 1879 trade fair in Berlin

From May to September 1881 an electrically operated train with passengers drove as part of the exhibition in the Palmengarten in Frankfurt's Westend district . The train corresponded to the one that had been used in 1879 with the first electric locomotive from Werner Siemens at the Berlin trade fair at the Lehrter station by Siemens & Halske . The railway was operated in the eastern part of the Palmengarten on a circuit with a track width of 550 mm and a speed of 7 km / h . The locomotive with an output of 2.2 kW was charged with direct current of 150 V operated. The power supply was provided by a busbar . It wasn't until 1972 that a park railway was reopened in the Palmengarten with the Palmen-Express .

Web links

Commons : General German Patent and Design Protection Exhibition 1881 - Collection of images, videos and audio files

HWPH Historisches Wertpapierhaus AG: Illustration of a lottery ticket
Petra Breitkreuz: "Humorous-patented, exemplary editing": The "Frankfurter Latern" for the patent and design protection exhibition in 1881 ( PDF file; 3.18 MB)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b HWPH
↑ ^a ^b Illustration of the medal on an invoice form
↑ Dieter Höltge, Günter H. Köhler: Tram and light rail in Germany . 2nd Edition. 1: Hessen. EK-Verlag , Freiburg 1992, ISBN 3-88255-335-9 , p. 152 .

[Hwph-1] HWPH

[Commons-2] Illustration of the medal on an invoice form

[3] Dieter Höltge, Günter H. Köhler: Tram and light rail in Germany . 2nd Edition. 1: Hessen. EK-Verlag , Freiburg 1992, ISBN 3-88255-335-9 , p. 152 .