International Inventions Exhibition

The International Inventions Exhibition was a world's fair held in South Kensington in 1885.^[1][2] As with the earlier exhibitions in a series of fairs in South Kensington following the Great Exhibition, Queen Victoria was patron and her son Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales, was president of the organising committee.^[2] It opened on 4 May^[3] and three and three-quarters of a million people had visited when it closed 6 months later.^[4]

International Inventions Exhibition
One of the gold medal certificates awarded at the exhibition (this to Hick, Hargreaves and Co. for their Corliss engine supplementary governor & automatic barring engine.).
Overview
BIE-class	Unrecognized exposition
Name	International Inventions Exhibition
Visitors	three and three-quarters million
Organized by	Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales (president of the organising committee)
Location
Country	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
City	London
Timeline
Opening	4 May 1885

Countries participating included Austria-Hungary, Italy, Japan and the United States as well as the hosts, the United Kingdom.^[2]

Attractions included pleasure gardens, fountains and music as well as inventions.^[4] One series of concerts including old instruments^[5] from Belgium. Other historical exhibits included five heliographs by Niépce^[6] with modern photographers such as Captain Thomas Honywood also being present.^[1]

Inventions included folding tables,^[7] the Sussex trug, lacquer covered wire from OKI,^[8] a meter from Ferranti,^[9] a 38-stop organ equipped with a new floating-lever pneumatic action,^[3] and Philip Cardew won a gold medal for his hot-wire galvanometer, or voltmeter.^[10]

See also

• Expo 91: 1991 World's fair for young inventors
• Henry Willis & Sons for more organ information
• International Fisheries Exhibition 1883
• International Health Exhibition 1884

References

1. "Horsham Photographers". Retrieved 24 March 2012.
2. Scaife W G S (1999). "The Inventions Exhibition in London 1885". From Galaxies to Turbines: Science, Technology and the Parsons Family. p. 596. doi:10.1201/9781420046922.ch1. ISBN 9780750305822.
3. "EDWIN H. LEMARE (by Nelson Barden) - Part One Becoming the Best". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
4. Heroes of Invention. Technology, Liberalism and British Identity 1750-1914. p. 374.
5. "Dolmetsch online". Retrieved 24 March 2012.
6. "The First Photograph - The Discovery". Archived from the original on 6 February 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
7. "results". Retrieved 24 March 2012.
8. "1874 - 1939 – Corporate Information – OKI Global". Retrieved 24 March 2012.
9. Wilson J F (1991). Ferranti and the British electrical industry, 1864-1930. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-7190-2369-9.
10. Vetch, Robert Hamilton (1912). "Cardew, Philip" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 313–314.

External links

• https://archive.org/details/b22449152/page/n4
• Contains an image of the exhibition buildings