International Electricity Exhibition 1881
The International Electricity Exhibition 1881 , often also the First International Electricity Exhibition , took place in Paris from August 15, 1881 to November 15, 1881 in the Palais de l'Industrie (also Palais de l'Industrie et des Beaux-arts ) on the Champs-Élysées , which was also the venue of previous world exhibitions. In particular, the preceding World Exhibition in Paris in 1878 gave the motivation to dedicate a separate exhibition to electrical engineering, called the Exposition Internationale d'Électricité .
At the same time, the First International Electricity Congress , also known as the Electrotechnical Congress, met in Paris in August 1881.
Industries from Great Britain, the USA, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and France took part in the exhibition. Among other things, the first dynamo by Zénobe Gramme was shown, Thomas Alva Edison presented the recently patented incandescent lamps , the stereophonic Théâtrophone was demonstrated in a hall, Werner von Siemens set up the first electric tram with power supply through an overhead line , Alexander Graham Bell showed that The first commercial telephone , an electrical distribution network by Marcel Deprez , was presented, and Gustave Trouvé showed his experimental electric car , which is now considered the first of its kind. The mass of new presentations generated great enthusiasm, so that a number of international electricity exhibitions were subsequently also held in other countries.
See also
- International Electrical Exhibition 1883 in Vienna
- International Electrotechnical Exhibition 1891 in Frankfurt
Web links
- Gérard Borvon: Histoire de l'électricité. L'exposition Internationale d'électricité de 1881, à Paris . September 12, 2009. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
- archive.org: Exposition internationale d'électricité, 1881; France . Ministère des postes et des télégraphes (digitized version)
Individual evidence
- ^ Siemens Historical Institute: First electric tram in the world. Retrieved August 14, 2018 .