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Reulos, Goudeau & Co. invent Mirographe, a 21 mm amateur format.; The Lumière Brothers premiere their new Lumiere Wide format for the 1900 World Fair.At 75 mm wide, it has held the record for over 100 years as the widest format yet developed.
The Mirographe, sold by Reulos, Goudeau and Co. around 1900, [1] was, with the Chrono Pocket Gaumont, one of the French amateur film cameras to use the reduced format. Film stock [ edit ]
1893 – Chicago, Illinois, United States – World's Columbian Exposition [13] – Palace of Fine Arts and the World's Congress Auxiliary Building; 1893 – New York City, United States – World's Fair Prize Winners' Exposition (1893) 1894 – San Francisco, California, United States – California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 [13]
In fact, especially in times of difficulty, the fair mattered. Two of the most popular world’s fairs, Chicago’s 1933-1934 Century of Progress and New York’s 1939 World of Tomorrow, took ...
The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. [1]
A Century of Progress International Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, from 1933 to 1934. The fair, registered under the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), celebrated the city's centennial.
Her patriotic poem "Liberty Bell" led to the construction of the Columbian Liberty Bell. [3] With this, Wagner reached the acme of her notability when, in 1893, because of her poem, she and William Osborne McDowell, who conceived a great bell for the World's Columbian Exposition, were voted by the Chicago authorities the freedom of the city. [5]
Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell took the world's first colored photograph. He experimented with red, blue, and green filters while photographing a ribbon. ... Between 1890 And 1900. Image ...