Architecture and Technology

Machinery Hall at the Paris Exhibition, 1889

The 1889 Paris Exposition showcased many new architectural acheivements as well as a wide variety of technological advances.  Among these were Edison's first motion picture, photographic advances, electrical and steam inventions, and iron works - typified by the Eiffel tower itself.

 

La Nature, Review of the sciences and their application in art and industry. 

Series information: Volume: 1889: 17th year, second semester: n°835 à 861.

Creator: Tissandier, Gaston, chief editor; Parville, Henri de, director. 

Publisher: Paris : Masson, 1889. 

Language: French. 

Physical description: [4]-444 p., 379 ill.,

Unique identifiers: CNAM 4° Ky 28.33,http://cnum.cnam.fr/SYN/4KY28.33.html. 

Abstract:  La Nature was a periodical published semi-anually in France, featuring advances in science and how the were presented and used in art, industry, and society.  The second semester 1889 volume featured numerous advances that were unveiled or shown to the public at the 1889 Expo in Paris.  Items that we might recognize or appreciate include: an explanation of the advances in electrical lighting (attended by noted scientists and inventors Thomson and Edison), advances in photography and telephony, etc.

Electric Lighting At The Paris Exhibition - The Oerlikon Works (3 parts), Possibly contained in Scientific American reference book By Albert Allis Hopkins, Alexander Russell Bond, (need to find what edition(s) of Scientific American these were in)[1]

A world's fair for the global village By Carl Malamud[2]

Telephone exhibit

A Franco-American Battle of Beams:: Electricity and the Selling of Modernity

J Design Hist, Summer 2005; 18: 147 - 166. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3105107

The Galerie des Machines of the 1889 Paris World's Fair

John W. Stamper Technology and Culture, Vol. 30, No. 2, Special Issue: Essays in Honor of Carl W. Condit (Apr., 1989), pp. 330-353 (article consists of 24 pages) Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of the Society for the History of Technology Stable URL:

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The Very First Motion Picture (1889). 

Creator: Decker, Kerry. 

Publisher: YouTube, 2008.

Language: English

Physical description:  YouTube video, 3:31 (length) 

Unique identifier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDmAxdLvdQ4&feature=related

Abstract: This video shows the first experimental movie that Thomas Edison made in 1889.  In 1878, British photographer Eadweard Muybridge made a series of still photographs of a horse that when viewed in sequence, appeared to be galloping. Edison felt this was too cumbersome for practical use and soon developed a system for "motion" pictures, based on his wax cylinder for phonographs. Thus you will see the two short sequences still in existance of the very first American motion picture from 1889.

Le "chemin de fer portatif" Decauville

Series information:  One of a group of articles related to the transport of stone

Creator: not given

Publisher:  ruedeslumieres.morkitu.org, 2005-2009.

Language: French

Physical description: On-line article

Unique identifier: http://ruedeslumieres.morkitu.org/telecharger/transport_pierre/Transport%20pierre%20%20III%20-%20Le%20chemin%20de%20fer%20portatif%20Decauville.pdf

Abstract: The article explains how Paul Decauville invented the portable narrow guage railway, originally to transport an abundant beet harvest before it spoiled in the fields.  About 3 km of Decauville's narrow guage railway would be installed at the expositions universelled to transport visitors to five different stations and through two tunnels.

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