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Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations was a World's Fair held in 1853 in what is now Bryant Park in New York City, in the wake of the highly successful 1851 Great Exhibition in London. It aimed to showcase the new industrial achievements of the world and also to demonstrate the nationalistic pride of a relatively young nation and all that she stood for. Jacob Aaron Westervelt, at that time Mayor of New York, was the President of the exhibition-committee.〔''18th Annual Report, no. 13 (1820)'' by the Bergen County Historical Society, page 61/62〕 The general superintendent was Admiral Du Pont. Opening on July 14, 1853 with newly sworn President Franklin Pierce in attendance, the fair was seen by over 1.1 million visitors before it closed on November 14, 1854. The fair featured its own glass and iron exhibition building – the New York Crystal Palace – directly inspired by London's.〔 The Palace was destroyed by fire on October 5, 1858. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/nyccrystalpalace.html )〕 Walt Whitman, an American poet wrote "The Song of the Exposition":
Adjoining the Crystal Palace was the Latting Observatory, a wooden tower high adjoining the Crystal Palace, allowed visitors to see into Queens, Staten Island and New Jersey. The tower, taller than the spire of Trinity Church at , was the tallest structure in New York City from the time it was constructed in 1853 until it burnt down on August 30, 1856.〔Staff. ("NEW-YORK CITY.; A Conflagration--Destruction of the "Latting Observatory"--$130,000 worth of Property destroyed-Narrow escape of the Crystal Palace. The Knife Again--Probable Murder of a Boy by a Boy. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Burned to Death." ), ''The New York Times'', September 1, 1856. Accessed May 18, 2009.〕〔Pollak, Michael. ("F.Y.I.: Over the Bounding Pond" ), ''The New York Times'', August 28, 2005. Accessed May 18, 2009.〕 Today, the expo is also remembered as the place where Elisha Otis demonstrated an elevator equipped with a device called a safety, which would kick in if the hoisting rope broke. This addressed a major public concern regarding the safety of elevators. Three years later, Otis installed the first passenger elevator in the United States in a New York City store. ==Notable exhibits== * Elisha Otis demonstrated an elevator equipped with a device called a safety brake * David Alter displayed a method to manufacture and purify bromine from salt wells, highly useful in the iron industry * The world's first pedal quadracycle was shown 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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