Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations (1853)
| Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations 1853 | |
|---|---|
 New York Crystal Palace , architect Karl Gildemeister. Colored oil print by George Baxter, London, 1853 |
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| General | |
| new hits | Quadracycle safety elevator from Otis |
| Number of visitors | 1.1 million |
| BIE recognition | No |
| participation | |
| Exhibitors | 4,000 exhibitors |
| Place of issue | |
| place | new York |
| terrain |
Bryant Park Coordinates: 40 ° 45 ′ 13.7 " N , 73 ° 59 ′ 1" W
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| calendar | |
| opening | July 14, 1853 |
| closure | November 1, 1854 |
| Chronological order | |
| predecessor | London 1851 |
| successor | Paris 1855 |
The Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations took place in New York in 1853 and 1854. It was based on the model of the successful first world exhibition , the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, and also had a Crystal Palace as an exhibition building.
The President of the Exhibition Committee was the shipping entrepreneur and Mayor Jacob Aaron Westervelt . The exhibition venue was today's Bryant Park . The exhibition building, which is very similar to London's Crystal Palace, was the work of the German architect Karl Gildemeister and the Dane Georg Carstensen .
President Franklin Pierce opened the building and the exhibition on July 14, 1853. Walt Whitman published an enthusiastic poem about it. Around four thousand exhibitors presented industrial and consumer goods as well as arts and crafts objects. The exhibition lasted until November 1, 1854 and counted more than a million visitors. It stimulated tourism to a significant extent, especially hotel construction, but still closed with a loss of $ 300,000. In the exhibition in 1854 Elisha Graves Otis demonstrated the functioning of his safety elevator. David Alter showed a method of producing bromine salt. A Quadracycle, a pedal-powered four-wheeled vehicle built by Willard Sawyer, caught attention .
New York's Crystal Palace fell victim to a major fire on October 5, 1858.
literature
- Carstensen & Gildemeister: New York Crystal Palace: illustrated description of the building by Geo. Carstensen & Chs. Gildemeister, architects of the building; with an oil-color exterior view, and six large plates containing plans, elevations, sections, and details, from the working drawings of the architects Publisher: Riker, Thorne & Co., New York 1854.
Individual evidence
- ^ Martha J. Lamb, Burton Harrison, History of the city of New York: its origin, rise and progress. P. 358f.