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 .. (1899)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 450
d 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… … 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…
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