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The Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a world's fair held in Paris, France, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next. 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday. ...
A Worlds Fair is any of various large expositions held since the mid 19th century. ...
The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world Paris is Frances capital and largest city, straddling the river Seine in the northern centre of its country. ...
More than 5 million people attended the exhibition (a world record at the time), yet it still failed to turn a profit, costing the French government 2,000,000 Francs. The fair included more than 76,000 exhibitors and covered 1.12 square kilometres of Paris.
The Exposition Universelle was where motion pictures were first unveiled and where the escalator debuted. For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of...
Escalators at Westminster tube station, London An escalator is a conveyor transport device for transporting people, consisting of a staircase whose steps move up or down on tracks that keep the surfaces of the individual steps horizontal. ...
The exhibition lasted from 14 April until 10 November 1900. A special committee, led by Gustave Eiffel, awarded a gold medal to Lavr Proskuryakov's project for the Yenisei Bridge in Krasnoyarsk. April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). ...
November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining. ...
1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday. ...
Gustave Eiffel A monument to Gustave Eiffel at the base of the Eiffel Tower Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (December 15, 1832 – December 27, 1923; French pronunciation in IPA, in English usually pronounced in the German manner ) was a French engineer and architect, specialist of metallic structures, famous for building the Eiffel...
Proskuryakovs project for the Yenisey Bridge was awarded the Gold Medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900). ...
The length of the bridge exceeds 100 meters. ...
A number of Paris' most noted structures were built for the Exposition including the Gare de Lyon, the Gare d'Orsay (now the Musée d'Orsay), the Pont Alexandre III, the Grand Palais, La Ruche, and the Petit Palais. Inside the Gare de Lyon. ...
Musée dOrsay Inside the main hall The Musée dOrsay is a museum in Paris, situated on the left bank of the River Seine. ...
Musée dOrsay Exterior view in the afternoon Musée dOrsay Inside the main hall The Musée dOrsay is a museum in Paris, situated on the left bank of the River Seine. ...
Pont Alexandre III in Paris, with the Eiffel Tower in the background Pont Alexandre III in Paris, Photography by Eric Pouhier Pont Alexandre III is an arch bridge that spans the Seine, connecting the Champs-Élysées quarter and the Invalides and Eiffel Tower Quarter, regarded by many as one...
A detail of the Grand Palais . ...
La Ruche (literally the beehive) is an artists residence in Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France. ...
The Façade of the Petit Palais The Petit Palais is a museum in Paris, France. ...
A sideshow at the Exposition was the Second Olympic Games, which were spread over five months. So unnoted were these games that many athletes died unaware that they had been Olympians. The games also marked the first participation by female athletes and, in such sports as tennis, football (soccer), polo, rowing and tug of war, teams were multinational. The 1900 Summer Olympics, formally known as the Games of the II Olympiad, were held in 1900 in Paris, France. ...
A Human Zoo was present at the exposition. // Human zoos (also called ethnological expositions or negro villages) were common until at least the 1930s. ...
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