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Title: 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 ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
Subjects: Progress Inventions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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mercial institution, the fair had its best day when peoplewere widely separated. The increase of population, the development ofnew life and activity by growing communities, the opening of means of travel THE CENTURYS FAIRS AND EXPOSITIONS 423 between distant points, and the establishment of stores and markets, were allfatal to the commercial fair. To-day, in all Europe, only three really greatannual fairs of this character remain, — those of Nijni-Xovgorod, in liussia;Beaucaire, in France; and Leipsic, in Germany. The same conditions thatbrought the popular usefulness of the commercial fair to an end were theforces from which the fair as an exponent of industrial achievement hasbeen developed, and the material progress of the nineteenth century is to betraced. For the modern fair in all of its forms the world is indebted to the Societyof Arts, of London, an organization whose fame in America was so great thatBenjamin Franklin, in soliciting corresponding membership, declared that he
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MUNICH EXPOSITION, 1854. would esteem it a great honor to be admitted and also to be permitted to con-tribute twenty guineas to be expended in premiums. What this Society in,its early days did for Great Britain it did also for civilization. It organizedthe first exhibition of specimens of improvements in the useful arts and man-ufactures in 1760 ; stimulated native ingenuity by judicious awards of prizesand premiums for exhibits of exceptional merit; and extended its powerfulinfluence to foster art, science, mechanical and agricultural industry, and thefishery trade and colonial commerce of the country. Of the many influences of this Society that came to the United States, itmay be questioned if any had a more lasting benefit for both people andcountry than that which gave birth to the mechanics institutes. There arepeople still living who are able to recall how the large cities in the Easternand Middle States vied with each other in the establishment of two great and 424 TRIUMPHS AND

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