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The
Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a
world's fair held in
Paris,
France, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next. The style that was universally present in the Exposition was
Art Nouveau.
More than 50 million people attended the exhibition (a world record at the time), it turned a profit for the French government of 7,000,000
Francs. The fair included more than 76,000 exhibitors and covered 1.12 square kilometres of Paris.
The Exposition Universelle was where
talking films and
escalators were first publicized, and where
Campbell's Soup was awarded a gold medal (an image of which still appears on its label). At the Exposition
Rudolf Diesel exhibited his
diesel engine, running on
peanut oil. Brief films of excerpts from opera and ballet are apparently the first films exhibited publicly with projection of both image and recorded sound. The Exposition also featured many
panoramic paintings and extensions of the panorama technique, such as the
Cinéorama,
Mareorama, and
Trans-Siberian Railway Panorama.
The centrepiece of the Palais de l'Optique, was the largest
refracting telescope built to date. The lens tube was 60 meters long and 1.5 meters in diameter. Light from the sky was sent into the tube by a large 2-meter mirror.
The exhibition lasted from
15 April until
12 November 1900.
A special committee, led by
Gustave Eiffel, awarded a gold medal to
Lavr Proskuryakov's project for the
Yenisei Bridge in Krasnoyarsk.
A number of Paris' most noted structures were built for the Exposition, including the
Gare de Lyon, the
Gare d'Orsay (now the
Musée d'Orsay), the
Pont Alexandre III, the
Grand Palais,
La Ruche, and the
Petit Palais. The first line of the
Paris Metro also began operation to co-incide with the Exposition. Although completed in just 18 months, it was nevertheless slightly late, taking its first paying passengers to the
Ancien Palais du Trocadéro site on
19 July 1900.
Part of the Exposition was the
Second Olympic Games, which were spread over five months. The games also marked the first participation by female athletes and, in such sports as tennis, football (soccer), polo, rowing and tug of war, teams were multinational.
A
Human Zoo was present at the exposition.
The
Finnish Pavilion at the Exposition was designed by the architectural firm of
Gesellius, Lindgren, and Saarinen. It was published in
Dekorative Kunst 3 (1900): 457-63 and in
L'Architecture á l'Exposition Universelle de 1900, p. 65, Pl. X. Paris: Libraries-Imprimeries Réunies, 1900.
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