Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . s to about £330,000, leaving a surplus of £176,000, which was subse-quently increased to £186,436. The distinctions of all kinds that were awarded, Council and prize medalsand honourable mentions. aggregated 5084. It is here interesting to showing the truly international character of the
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . s to about £330,000, leaving a surplus of £176,000, which was subse-quently increased to £186,436. The distinctions of all kinds that were awarded, Council and prize medalsand honourable mentions. aggregated 5084. It is here interesting to showing the truly international character of the first worlds exhibition, THE CENTURYS FAIRS AND EXPOSITIONS 429 that foreign guests occupied two-fifths of the exhibition space and receivedthree-fifths of the honors. British exhibitors of machinery, manufactures inmetal, and manufactures in glass and porcelain, took more prizes than allthe foreigners combined, foreigners led in the number of prizes for textilefabrics, fine arts, and miscellaneous manufactures; and in the section of rawmaterials for food and manufactures the foreign exhibitors gained nearly fourtimes as many prizes as the British. This exhibition developed a number of features that should be borne inmind when considering those that came after it. It was an experiment in an. COURT OF HONOR FROM PERISTYLE. (Worlds Columbian Exposition. Chicago. 1893.) untried field; it was comprised in a single building; and it was self-support-ing. In all respects it was a marvelous achievement. It made the latePrince (Vmsort the father. and the Society of Arts the pioneer promoters,of the international exposition. The beneficial influence of the first worlds exhibition began to be feltimmediately. An exhibition of the arts and manufactures of Ireland washeld in Cork in the following year, and the Royal Dublin Society, which hadbeen holding similar exhibitions triennially, got up a much larger one thanusual, through the generous pecuniary aid of William Dargan, in 1853. TheD
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