Download or read book Electricity at the Columbian Exposition written by John Patrick Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Devil In The White City written by Erik Larson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep defying fiction' TIME OUT One was an architect. The other a serial killer. This is the incredible story of these two men and their realization of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, and its amazing 'White City'; one of the wonders of the world. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the driving force behind the White City, the massive, visionary landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals and gardens. The killer was H. H. Holmes, a handsome doctor with striking blue eyes. He used the attraction of the great fair - and his own devilish charms - to lure scores of young women to their deaths. While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century . . .
Download or read book The Chicago World s Fair of 1893 written by Stanley Appelbaum and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 128 rare, vintage photographs: 200 buildings — 79 of foreign governments, 38 of U.S. states — the original ferris wheel, first midway, Edison's kinetoscope, much more. 128 black-and-white photographs. Captions. Map. Index.
Download or read book Electricity at the World s Fair of 1893 Columbian Exposition Illustrated Enlarged Special Edition written by John Barrett and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electricity at the World s Fair of 1893 Columbian Exposition Illustrated Enlarged Signed Special Edition written by John Barrett and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago's 1893 World's Fair ushered in the modern electric age with an unprecedented display of electrical lighting, fountains, and dynamos to power the greatest party on Earth.Everything that you ever wanted to know about electricity at the 1893 World's Fair but were afraid to ask, it's all here! Chief of the Electric Department, John Barret, wrote this incredibly informative and in-depth guide to all things electric at the Columbian Exposition in 1894. Leaving no stone unturned, he describes in impeccable detail the exhibits, the power, the specs, and more.Illustrated with remarkable photographs and engravings from Chicago's 1893 White City, Electricity at the World's Fair of 1893 Columbian Exposition: Illustrated Enlarged Special Edition delivers a stunning remastered reading experience with enlarged pages, impeccably re-scanned images, authentic period font, and a lavish retro cover design by Expo: Magic of the White City and Westinghouse director, Mark Bussler (writer 1939 New York World's Fair: The World of Tomorrow in Photographs and artist of the 19th-century inspired The Horrible Octopus.)Take an electrifying tour through the World's Fair and marvel at Westinghouse's incandescent lighting system, Edison's Tower of Lights, outside and inside arc lighting, subways and conduits, wires, the intramural railway, the Gray Teleautograph, and much more.Signed by cover designer and restoration editor, Mark Bussler.
Download or read book World s Columbian Exposition written by Daniel Hudson Burnham and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicago s 1893 World s Fair written by Joseph M. Di Cola and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What came to be known as the World s Columbian Exposition was planned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus s 1492 landfall in the New World. Chicago beat out New York City, St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, DC, in its bid as host a coup for the Windy City. The site finally selected for the fair was Jackson Park, originally designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, a marshy area covered with dense, wild vegetation. Daniel H. Burnham and John W. Root were selected as chief architects, creating the famous White City. The fair featured several different thematic areas: the Great Buildings, Foreign Buildings, State Buildings, and the Midway Plaisance, a nearly mile-long area that featured exotic exhibits. The exposition also showcased the world s first Ferris Wheel and introduced fairgoers to new sensations like Cracker Jack, Pabst Beer, and ragtime music. The World s Columbian Exposition, covering 633 acres, opened on May 1, 1893. Admission prices were 50cents for adults, 25cents for children under 12 years of age, and free for children under six. Unfortunately, by 1896, most of the fair s buildings had been removed or destroyed, but this collection takes readers on a tour of the grounds as they looked in 1893."
Download or read book Electricity at the World s Fair of 1893 Columbian Exposition written by John Barrett and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago's 1893 World's Fair ushered in the modern electric age with an unprecedented display of electrical lighting, fountains, and dynamos to power the greatest party on Earth. Everything that you ever wanted to know about electricity at the 1893 World's Fair but were afraid to ask, it's all here! Chief of the Electric Department, John Barret, wrote this incredibly informative and in-depth guide to all things electric at the Columbian Exposition in 1894. Leaving no stone unturned, he describes in impeccable detail the exhibits, the power, the specs, and more. Illustrated with remarkable photographs and engravings from Chicago's 1893 White City, Electricity at the World's Fair of 1893 Columbian Exposition: Illustrated Enlarged Special Edition delivers a stunning remastered reading experience with enlarged pages, impeccably re-scanned images, authentic period font, and a lavish retro cover design by Expo: Magic of the White City and Westinghouse director, Mark Bussler (writer 1939 New York World's Fair: The World of Tomorrow in Photographs and artist of the 19th-century inspired The Horrible Octopus.) Take an electrifying tour through the World's Fair and marvel at Westinghouse's incandescent lighting system, Edison's Tower of Lights, outside and inside arc lighting, subways and conduits, wires, the intramural railway, the Gray Teleautograph, and much more. Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Incandescent Lighting Chapter 3: Arc Lighting Chapter 4: The Power Plant Chapter 5: Dynamos Chapter 6: Motors Chapter 7: Transmission and Regulations of Electric Current Chapter 8: Measuring Instruments Chapter 9: Switchboards Chapter 10: Electric Railway Systems and Appliances Chapter 11: Railway Signaling and Safety Devices Chapter 12: Telegraphy Chapter 13: Telephony Chapter 14: Fire and Police Apparatus Chapter 15: Primary Batteries Chapter 16: Secondary or Storage Batteries Chapter 17: Electric Heating, Welding, and Forging Chapter 18: Electricity Applied to Mining Chapter 19: Electro-Chemistry Chapter 20: Electro-Therapeutics and Electro-Surgery Chapter 21: Electrical Apparatus for War, Marine, and Naval Service Chapter 22: Annunciators and Electrical Calls Chapter 23: Electric Clocks Chapter 24: Carbons for Electrical Purposes Chapter 25: Electrical Parts and Miscellaneous Chapter 26: Electrical Journals and Periodicals Chapter 27: Awards in the Electrical Department Chapter 28: The Electricity Building
Download or read book The World s Fair written by John Brisben Walker and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Official Guide to the World s Columbian Exposition written by John Joseph Flinn and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Power Lined written by Daniel L. Wuebben and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proliferation of electric communication and power networks have drawn wires through American landscapes like vines through untended gardens since 1844. But these wire networks are more than merely the tools and infrastructure required to send electric messages and power between distinct places; the iconic lines themselves send powerful messages. The wiry webs above our heads and the towers rhythmically striding along the horizon symbolize the ambiguous effects of widespread industrialization and the shifting values of electricity and landscape in the American mind. In Power-Lined Daniel L. Wuebben weaves together personal narrative, historical research, cultural analysis, and social science to provide a sweeping investigation of the varied influence of overhead wires on the American landscape and the American mind. Wuebben shows that overhead wires—from Morse’s telegraph to our high-voltage grid—not only carry electricity between American places but also create electrified spaces that signify and complicate notions of technology, nature, progress, and, most recently, renewable energy infrastructure. Power-Lined exposes the subtle influences wrought by the wiring of the nation and shows that, even in this age of wireless devices, perceptions of overhead lines may be key in progressing toward a more sustainable energy future.
Download or read book The World s Columbian Exposition written by David J. Bertuca and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition had a profound impact on urban planning and the Beaux-Arts period of American architecture. The fair introduced the Ferris Wheel, Cracker Jacks, and fiberglass. Yet today, except for one building and a grassy park, all that remains is the legacy of printed material dispersed throughout the country. This reference guide, intended for historians, librarians, and collectors, provides access to that legacy. The introduction summarizes the Exposition's influence. The bibliography, arranged to allow researchers to browse topics broadly, describes over 6,000 books, journal articles, and other materials. A directory of special collections of fair-related materials is also included. Newspaper and magazine articles, books, dissertations, drawings, photographs, maps, letters, documents, and collections of memorabilia—these provide the enduring heritage of the fair. This guide provides information on all aspects of that heritage. In addition to the bibilography itself, an extensive introduction discusses the influence the fair has had on America. Illustrations provide a visual portrayal of the fair. A directory of special collections of fair-related materials provides an inventory of each collection, along with addresses and telephone numbers. This book is the only comprehensive reference guide to the World's Columbian Exposition.
Download or read book A World s Fair for the Global Village written by Carl Malamud and published by Carl Malamud. This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malamud offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Internet Exposition of 1996--a worldwide event which embraced the new technologies of the Internet--and profiles the small group of people who made it happen. The book comes with an audio CD and a CD-ROM for Macintosh and Windows 95. 800 color illustrations.
Download or read book World of Fairs written by Robert W. Rydell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the depths of the Great Depression, when America's future seemed bleak, nearly one hundred million people visited expositions celebrating the "century of progress." These fairs fired the national imagination and served as cultural icons on which Americans fixed their hopes for prosperity and power. World of Fairs continues Robert W. Rydell's unique cultural history—begun in his acclaimed All the World's a Fair—this time focusing on the interwar exhibitions. He shows how the ideas of a few—particularly artists, architects, and scientists—were broadcast to millions, proclaiming the arrival of modern America—a new empire of abundance build on old foundations of inequality. Rydell revisits several fairs, highlighting the 1926 Philadelphia Sesquicentennial, the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition, the 1933-34 Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, the 1935-36 San Diego California Pacific Exposition, the 1936 Dallas Texas Centennial Exposition, the 1937 Cleveland Great Lakes and International Exposition, the 1939-40 San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition, the 1939-40 New York World's Fair, and the 1958 Brussels Universal Exposition.
Download or read book The Age of Edison written by Ernest Freeberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb marked the arrival of modernity, transforming its inventor into a mythic figure and avatar of an era. In The Age of Edison, award-winning author and historian Ernest Freeberg weaves a narrative that reaches from Coney Island and Broadway to the tiniest towns of rural America, tracing the progress of electric light through the reactions of everyone who saw it and capturing the wonder Edison’s invention inspired. It is a quintessentially American story of ingenuity, ambition, and possibility in which the greater forces of progress and change are made by one of our most humble and ubiquitous objects.
Download or read book Palazzos of Power written by Aaron V. Wunsch and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If it isn't Electric, it isn't Modern." Such was the slogan of the Philadelphia Electric Company, developer of an unprecedented network of massive metropolitan power stations servicing greater Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. These once-brilliant sentinels of civic utility and activity were designed to convey "solidity and immensity" in an age of deep public skepticism. They now stand vacant and decaying, a "blight" in the eyes of city planners and a beacon to urban explorers. The first book on the buildings and machines that made possible the electrification of the United States, Palazzos of Power offers a visual and analytical exploration of architecture, technology, place, loss, and reuse. With a foreword by David Nye, this collection of Joseph Elliott's beautiful large-format photographs reveal the urban landscape, monumental spaces, giant machinery, and intricate controls that made up the central station. Aaron Wunsch's essay provides historical context on the social and political climate.
Download or read book AC DC written by Tom McNichol and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison wrongly bet in the fierce war between supporters of alternating current and direct current. The savagery of this electrical battle can hardly be imagined today. The showdown between AC and DC began as a rather straightforward conflict between technical standards, a battle of competing methods to deliver essentially the same product, electricity. But the skirmish soon metastasized into something bigger and darker. In the AC/DC battle, the worst aspects of human nature somehow got caught up in the wires; a silent, deadly flow of arrogance, vanity, and cruelty. Following the path of least resistance, the war of currents soon settled around that most primal of human emotions: fear. AC/DC serves as an object lesson in bad business strategy and poor decision making. Edison's inability to see his mistake was a key factor in his loss of control over the ?operating system? for his future inventions?not to mention the company he founded, General Electric.
