Great Exhibition of 1851
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The first international industrial exhibition. It was held in Hyde Park in London from 1 May to 11 October 1851. It was also known as the World’s Fair owing to the international participation.
More than 17,000 exhibitors came from 28 countries; they exhibited goods and craft products of all kinds, machines and production methods, as well as mineral resources and fine arts. Among the innovations shown were the telegraph and the first synthetic chair made of vulcanized rubber.
Johann Conrad Fischer visited the Great Exhibition in June 1851, where his products and those of his sons Georg and Berthold Fischer were showcased. Johann Conrad Fischer exhibited ingots of various steel types, two daggers and four razors made of nickel-steel alloy.
Traveljournal 1851
- Thoughts about the Great Exhibition in London 1851
- Freiburg–Mannheim, 13 June 1851
- Fischer’s first visit, 18 June 1851
- Fischer’s second visit, 19 June 1851
- On life in London, 20 June 1851
- A fulfilling Sunday spent writing, 22 June 1851
- Fischer’s fourth visit, 23 June 1851
- Fischer’s highlights of the Exhibition, 24 June 1851
- Fischer and his exhibits, 25 June 1851
- Fischer’s walks through London, 26 June 1851
- Further highlights of the Exhibition, 29 June 1851
- Fischer on the visit by the British seamen, 30 June 1851
- Fischer’s eighth visit, 2 July 1851
- Fischer’s business visits in Sheffield, 7 July 1851
- Afterword: Thoughts on free trade
- Fischer, Johann Conrad: Tagebücher. Bearbeitet von Karl Schib. Schaffhausen 1951.
- Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, 1851. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue. Vol. 3, London 1851, S. 1269. Eisenbibliothek S 1263.
- Henderson, W. O.: J. C. Fischers Besuche in London zwischen 1794 und 1851. In: Sonderdruck aus Tradition - Zeitschrift für Firmengeschichte und Unternehmensbiographie 1967, S. 423–426.
- Henderson, W. O.: J. C. Fischer and his Diary of Industrial England 1814–1851. London 1966, S. 41–44.
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