International Electricity Exhibition
International Electricity Exhibitions were a series of exhibitions that showcased the latest developments in electrical engineering from 1881 onwards.
The First International Electricity Exhibition ( Exposition Internationale d'Électricité ) took place for the first time in Paris on August 10, 1881 . Thousands of incandescent lamps , then still called " Edison lights", shone on the site and there were test stands where the audience was allowed to switch incandescent lamps on and off. Also, Siemens & Halske was the first electric tram represented. The trip in a 50-passenger car from the Place de la Concorde to the Palais de l'Industrie on the exhibition grounds was also met with great enthusiasm among the Parisians and contributed significantly to “making the Parisians familiar” with the name Siemens - as Werner von Siemens wrote to his brother Carl in Russia.
From September 16, 1882, the exhibition was held under the title "Electricity Exhibition" in Munich . The organizer of the first exhibition in Germany was Oskar von Miller , who later founded the Deutsches Museum . Oskar von Miller also directed the exhibition in Frankfurt am Main in 1891 .
In the context of the International Electricity Exhibition, systems for electrical energy transmission were shown several times, always including a waterfall located on the exhibition grounds, which was driven by the direct current transmission Miesbach-Munich . This was a 57 km long telegraph line that transported the electrical current, which was generated by a steam-powered 1.5 HP dynamo machine , from Miesbach to Munich. At that time it was still direct current that was transmitted and supplied the pump for the 2.5 m high waterfall with electricity. The efficiency was only 25%.
In 1883 the first " International Electrical Exhibition " took place in Vienna . At the same time the “Electrotechnical Association of Austria” and the electrotechnical institute at the Technical University in Vienna were founded. From August 8 to September 15, 1913, the "Electricity Exhibition for Household and Business" in Basel set new standards for Switzerland. It was attended by 200,000 people and threw in entrance fees from 105,000 francs instead of the budgeted 85,000.
See also
- Wilhelm Brix and others as representatives of the German Empire 1881
- DC remote transmission from Miesbach – Munich to drive the fountain at the exhibition in Munich in 1882
- Three-phase transmission Lauffen – Frankfurt on the occasion of the International Electrotechnical Exhibition in Frankfurt am Main in 1891
Individual evidence
- ↑ 10 August 1881 First international electricity exhibition. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 8, 2007 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Siemens Historical Institute: First electric tram in the world (Siemens Historical Institute). Retrieved August 14, 2018 .
- ↑ 125 years of electrical energy transmission - Miesbach - Munich 1882. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 2, 2007 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Entry on the Electrotechnical Association of Austria in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- ↑ Basel Chronicle of September 15, 1913. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
literature
- Dávid Tréfás: "When the tent buildings shine in fairy-like lighting ..." The electricity exhibition for households and businesses in Basel 1913. In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde , Volume 105, pp. 9–48, 2005 ( digital copy )