WEBVTT - Let's All Go to the World's Fair 0:00:01.480 --> 0:00:02.920 Welcome to Stuff you should know. 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:04.960 A production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.520 Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:16.840 Chuck and it's just us today. Jerry's out on vacation. 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:19.960 I mean, she's at a conference, and this is the 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:20.680 stuff you should know. 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:26.480 That's right, This was your idea, and something about it 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:28.680 just smacks of kind of classic stuff you should know 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:32.200 where we talk about a bygone era in a way. 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:37.000 And so yeah, we're talking about world's fairs today. Depending 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:38.440 on where you are in the world, you might call 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:43.159 them international expositions, universal expositions, you might just call them 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:47.000 expose if you're pressed for time. Sure, And I thought, maybe, Chuck, 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.320 we would just do this entire episode in gibberish that 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:50.760 only you and I can understand. 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:52.720 Yeah, that's a great idea. 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:54.920 This is the one. We're finally gonna do. 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.320 It, all right, let's do it. 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:00.600 On second thought, let's not do it. Let's not do 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:04.680 it all right. So well, let's set the stage then 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:09.160 in plain English. It's hard to kind of understand now, 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.039 because we live in a world, and generally grew up 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.880 in a world that if we didn't have internet when 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:19.119 we were kids, we still had television, cable television, no less. 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:23.560 Before that, generations had radio and then yes, now today 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:27.640 we can basically go anywhere see anything, even stuff you 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:31.800 don't want to see, because everyone generally has access to 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:36.600 the internet, right. Yeah, before all of this, like being 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.720 exposed to new ideas, new things, seeing what the latest 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:43.119 cutting edge stuff was, that was not a common thing 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.280 for the average person, Like you just did not see 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.680 that kind of stuff, and that was generally the role 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:50.480 that World's fairs played. 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.320 Yeah, it was that, And like every time I was 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.760 reading about the different ones from the different nations, it 0:01:55.840 --> 0:02:00.360 was very much like, hey, look at how great we're doing, right, 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.440 you know, Like I mean obviously trying to supur commerce 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:05.440 and trade and stuff like that, but a lot of 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:06.960 it was sort of showing off. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.680 It was showing off. It was showing off, like all 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:13.880 the technological prowess and all the future ideas that are 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.560 coming down the pike that each country was working on. 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:20.560 There was lots of corporate exhibits eventually, and it sounds 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.280 to me like a cool place to have been. Yeah, 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.560 Like if I had a big list to pick from 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:27.560 of stuff I could go time travel too, I would 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:28.960 probably go to a couple of these. 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:34.600 Oh all right, so Woodstock, the inauguration of Jimmy Carter 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:36.080 and the World's Fair. 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:40.520 That's right. Well, let's get into the history of this, 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:40.920 shall we. 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.160 Yeah, because they didn't start as World's fares. If you 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.120 want to track the prehistory, you got to go to 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.280 the National Affairs. Sure, England was holding these in the 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:53.840 seventeen hundreds, barely. I think seventeen fifty four was the 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.880 first real one when the what would later be the 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.359 Royal Society for Arts, but before they got Royal, I 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.240 guess they were just the Society for Arts. They had 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.120 different shows and it was sort of like, I mean, 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.800 this was the seventeen hundred, so it was the technology 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:10.400 of the time was like, hey, look at this cool 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:12.480 new loom, or look at this new cool way we 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:13.280 can press cider. 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.360 Yes, and there was this kind of this new idea 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:22.080 called industrial arts, which was essentially designing and inventing new technology. 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.480 And yeah, it was old timey, but for the time 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.280 it was pretty cutting edge. And this is what laid 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.400 the kind of the foundation for the idea of what 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:32.800 a World's Fair is all about, which is, look at 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.480 all the technological progress we're making. It I saw that 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.960 it was essentially inextricably tied together with the industrial Revolution, 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:44.440 that that's really what kind of gave them the oomph needed, you. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.120 Know, steampowered oomph. 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:46.840 Yeah, that's right. 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.560 I guess not yet, but steam is coming. Don't worry. 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.160 France would get involved. They saw what England was doing 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.280 where they're like, well, we can't let them best us. 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:58.560 So they started holding theirs also in the late eighteenth century, 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:03.400 and both of them again were like marketing themselves sort 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.480 of abroad but also to their own people, like hey, 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.640 look at how great we're doing the rest of France. 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.120 Yeah, you can feel good about being French. Yeah, in 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:15.040 France becomes like basically the apex of world's fairs eventually 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:20.200 or international expositions. But England kind of took the crown 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:26.240 back first. And Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband, who was 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.240 of German ancestry or what we now call Germany and 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.920 who we have to thank for Christmas. So thank you 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:36.240 Prince Albert. Oh yeah, he hosted the Great Exhibition of 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:40.040 the Works of Industry of All Nations in eighteen fifty one, 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:44.360 and this was what basically everyone who knows about world's 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.840 Fairs knows anything about Worlds Fairs, says this was the 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:48.760 first World's Fair. 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.840 Yeah, no, one calls it the Great Exhibition of the 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:56.159 Works of the industry of all nations, right except for 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.480 us because we're being technical. Because everyone calls it the 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:02.840 Crystal Palace exhibition because that's where they built the Crystal Palace. 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.800 It was in Hyde Park from May to October eighteen 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:10.000 fifty one. And they wanted a real you know, and 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:11.920 you'll see this as a trend, like they really wanted 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.040 to knock people's socks off when they arrive and when 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:18.040 you arrived at this you know, kind of glorified greenhouse. 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:19.960 And in fact it was built by a greenhouse builder 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:25.000 named Joseph Paxton. But it was eighteen acres of glass 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.440 and iron and steel and it was it created eight 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:31.680 miles of display space, and it was like super impressive. 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.200 Yeah, it was a real ring and ding ding greenhouse. 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.240 I mean, an eighteen acre greenhouse is not easy to make, right, 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:41.200 So yes, it knocked everyone's socks off for sure. You 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:44.880 said there's eight miles worth of display space inside. So 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:50.039 it was also capable of holding fourteen thousand exhibits. Yeah, man, 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.240 about half of them were from Britain, and one of 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.240 the reasons that Prince Albert wanted to do this is 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.520 because he wanted to drum up interest in Europe in 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:00.440 particular for imports from Britain. 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:01.640 Yeah. 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:03.440 Yeah, he was like, hey, we got a bunch of 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.120 good stuff. Once you come over and see it, and 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.120 then you can place your orders on your way out 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:07.480 the door. 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:12.240 I wonder if they could you really place orders? I'll 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.000 bet you d you think so. 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:18.000 Yeah. So there was about five hundred and sixty exhibits 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:19.839 from the US, and one of them was the cult 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.560 repeating pistol, and I guarantee you could have been like, 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:24.719 I want to order some of those, give me some 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:26.320 right now so I can shoot in the air in 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:27.279 the Crystal Palace. 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:29.360 I bet you could have left there with a cult 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.080 repeating pistol if you had enough money. 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:32.599 Probably yeah. 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:35.880 Yeah. But I promised steam, and that is that first 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.560 one is where the steam engine was officially debuted, as 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:44.479 well as the automated cotton mule. Sure for spinning France. 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.320 You know, I think you said US had five sixty. 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:51.760 France had seventeen hundred and sixty exhibits. In addition to 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.760 the cult repeating pistol. Did you mention chewing tobacco? I 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:58.760 did not, And that's where we debuted as a nation. Hey, 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:01.600 look what we've come up with, chewing tobacco, which I 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.720 imagine we stole from indigenous peoples here. 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.960 Yes, but we really kind of americanized that the person 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:12.040 running that booth had to dance back and forth, pumping 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.160 its fist like a prospector the whole. 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:18.640 Time, right, and dance on maybe artificial legs, because artificial 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:20.720 legs were debuted by the United States there. 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.640 That's right. We really just had one exhibit and they 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:25.280 were everything compressed together. 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.200 Guy dancing on artificial egg shooting his pistol in the 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:30.080 air to in tobaccy. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:35.360 Yep, that's exactly right. So yeah, this is obviously a 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.960 huge hit. It actually made money for the organizers, which 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.640 was not the case for all the world's fairs to come. 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.840 But because of that a lot of people around the 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:47.520 world were like, hey, I want to get in on this, 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.880 and Paris said we're first. There was one in Dublin, 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.760 there was one in Cork, there was one in Munich, 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.640 there was one in New York. But really everything kind 0:07:56.680 --> 0:08:00.800 of moved over to Paris when they said we're over here. 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.440 Yeah, for sure. I mean the other ones were legit 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:06.320 World's Fairs. I think the one in New York in 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:10.640 eighteen fifty three through I think November eighteen fifty four. 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.480 That was a long one July to November. Yeah, the 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.080 Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations. In that case, 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.760 they did okay, but they were They clearly copied the 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.880 Crystal Palace. They built their own there in Bryant Park, 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:26.040 but they lost money. I think the first US one 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.640 to make any kind of hey was the one in 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.440 Philly in eighteen seventy six. 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:35.120 Right, Yeah, that was a centennial exhibition where the typewriter 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:39.719 was invented Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone. There was 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:43.880 also the largest steam engine ever. Yeah, apparently still holds 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.720 the record. It was a seven hundred tons steam engine 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:50.360 called the Corliss Engine. It took sixty five railroad cars 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:54.600 to deliver it to the exhibition in Philadelphia, and when 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.640 they turned it on, all of the machines at the 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:00.960 World's Fair came to life because they were all being 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.599 powered by the steam engine in the center of the 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:04.160 whole place. 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.079 That's a pretty fun little knock your socks off moment. 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:08.200 It is pretty cool. 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.880 I think, like everyone's standing around. Well, I guess it 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.520 was still it wasn't powering lights at the time, was it. No, 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.520 not yet, Okay, because we're yeah, that happens, it's coming, 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:18.480 everybody coming. 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.520 Yeah, But this whole thing it really I mean, it 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:22.839 attracted ten million people and it was a it was 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.920 a big one. So I guess I got ahead of myself. 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.680 Paris hadn't come. Yeah, I'm just really excited about Paris 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:29.960 taking over for some reason. 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.400 Yeah, I mean they took over in a big way. 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:34.960 They hosted eight of them between eighteen fifty five and 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:39.600 nineteen thirty seven, and a lot of theirs like most 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.960 other nations when they hosted, the government kind of really hosted. 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.920 In America, it was a lot of like corporate entities 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:49.160 from the beginning along with the government, but Paris really 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:53.040 took it to a political sort of apex by like 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.400 Napoleon really was showing off in the first and second ones, 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.840 like look how great I am, and look at all 0:09:59.880 --> 0:10:03.040 the great things I've done. The third one, I think 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:07.360 in eighteen seventy eight, was like, hey, you know, we're 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.280 doing fine. We've recovered from the Franco Prussian War and 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.360 all this internal violence of the Paris Commune, and like 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:15.200 we're still doing great, look at us. 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.600 Yeah, yeah, I mean that was a big part of 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.200 those European ones. Like you said, the Paris ones also 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.719 more charmingly, had fountains, Like almost all of them had 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:28.800 a really cool fountain, and a lot of those fountains 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.360 are left over. There's one from eighteen eighty nine called 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:36.079 the Fountain of Progress, and it is the first water 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:43.000 feature to have electric lights inside that shined up from underwater, 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.160 which to me is still quite impressive. 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:47.440 You had, do you think when they debuted it, they 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.640 were like, and we're gonna have Jacques stand in the 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:53.880 fountain while we turned it on. We're pretty sure it's 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:54.840 gonna work, right. 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.120 No one likes shock anyway, so don't worry. 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.040 Yeah, it all worked out for shock though. Now. But 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.640 I'm still like when I see a swimming pool light, 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.920 I know it's housed in a thing, but I don't know. 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.439 It all just vaguely makes me nervous. 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.360 It does, for sure, I get that. But the ones 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:13.440 in the fountains, they never make me nervous. They just 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:14.400 look so cool to me. 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:16.160 Yeah, because you're not in the fountain. 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.800 No, no, so it doesn't matter if it's like buzzing 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:20.880 with electricity. 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.840 Have you ever been to Rome, Italy? 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.199 Have It's one of my favorite towns. 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.240 Seen that Trevy Fountain? I do? 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:29.720 Is that the one with all the yes? I have? 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.199 Yeah? You didn't go to Rom and not see the Trivyountain? Right? 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.160 Yeah? It was pretty amazing. Yeah. 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:37.640 I think that has lights in it. 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:40.000 I'm sure it does. 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:41.679 Or at least around it. The thing was lit up. 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:43.040 I was there at night and it wasn't dark. 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.320 I was there during the day, so I couldn't tell you. 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:46.440 Okay, I gotcha. 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:47.160 So. 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.720 One of the other things that happened at the eighteen 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:54.880 eighty nine Exposition Universal was that the Eiffel Tower was debuted, 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:56.840 and we talked about this in depth. We did a 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:58.800 twenty twenty episode on the Eiffel Tower. 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.719 That's right, but just a couple of points as a refresher. 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:07.840 It was a contest about one hundred entrants and Gustav 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:11.640 Eiffel won it along with his colleagues, and they proposed 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.199 at the time what was going to be the It 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.160 was I think the tallest building in the world at 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:21.839 about one thousand feet and people, you know, the people 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:23.640 of the world loved it, but the people of Paris 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:25.240 did not like it very much, right. 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:27.400 No, they wanted to get rid of it, and it 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.120 almost got torn down. I think in nineteen oh nine 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.800 it came as close as it ever has and they said, no, no, 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:35.559 we're going to use this as a radio telegraph station. 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.520 So people in pairs were like, all right, as long 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.560 as it's serving purpose, you know, because I can't remember 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.840 who said it, but someone said that something that doesn't 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:51.120 actually function can never truly be beautiful. Oh really, Yeah, 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:52.480 it's something along those lines. 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.280 Yes, So like form overfunction basically. 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.720 Function over form or function and form function. 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:02.520 Well yeah, sure, I think we're saying the same thing. Yeah, 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.920 oh we are speaking in code now, that's right. It 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:08.760 finally happened. They also had what was called the Hygiene 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:12.240 Palace at that expo, which sounds super gross, it does, 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:14.880 but it was you know, it was at a time, 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.480 you know, it was eighteen eighty nine, So hygiene, you know, 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.800 we're talking like life saving hygiene, not like how to 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:24.040 smell less. So they showed like hospital stuff, medical stuff, 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.560 how to raise They had real babies and showed like, 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.439 here's how you raise a baby properly, right. 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:33.320 And then also speaking of babies, they made a full 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:37.599 scale reproduction of the tower at the Madeline Hospital for Foundlings, 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.280 which is where in Paris if you had a child, 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.480 this is where you would leave it for somebody else 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:44.920 to take over if. 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:45.800 You didn't want the child. 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.800 Right, Yes, exactly right. And they even had like a 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.000 model of a baby and everything. And I don't know 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:52.959 why they chose to include that, but. 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.840 They did, I don't know, maybe get the word out. 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.680 I guess so, because that was Yeah, they were trying 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.839 to get the word out in the hygiene Palace, for sure. 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:03.080 It's interesting when you can look back at a thing 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:04.960 like that and it can be both sort of the 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:06.720 greatest thing and the saddest thing all at once. 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:12.040 You know, sure, yeah, yeah, yeah we should, Yeah we 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.960 should build one. Yeah, well, it's funny you mentioned that 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.800 I started one this morning. You can come over and 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:19.680 help me finish it. 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:25.040 Awesome. That expo was very profitable. They made a ton 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.360 of money on it. And I don't think we said 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.880 at the beginning, like from the beginning, these world's fairs, 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:32.840 a portion of the money that they make on these 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.240 has gone or at least in the United States, has 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.560 gone into funds that help that still help fund like 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:40.840 industrial arts programs for students. 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:45.800 Yeah, that first Crystal Palace exhibition has a fellowship fund 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.400 that helps people in industrial design get through grad school 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:51.960 still today. From that's all from eighteen fifty one. 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:55.200 Yeah, should we break or should we talk about the 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:56.560 nineteen hundred expo? 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:00.880 Let's talk about the nineteen hundred. So because just to 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:05.640 kind of keep this contained for a second, basically, these 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.320 biggest ones, the ones that really made the biggest splash, 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:12.160 are still contained in Europe, largely Great Britain and France. 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.200 Okay, all right, I agree this one had the nineteen 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.040 hundred attracted fifty million people. 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:18.000 That's crazy. 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.160 Yeah, I mean these are nineteen hundred people, so they're 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.400 getting that many people. Yeah, I mean you can get 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.840 fifty million people pretty easily together now in any given. 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.040 Space, for sure, it's like nothing, But it was. 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.880 A big deal back then. And again showcasing Paris is 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:35.040 like sort of one of the leading modern cities. They 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:39.640 debuted something pretty cool there called the Cinerama, which they 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:41.720 still have these, and they have one of these in Atlanta, 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.880 The Cyclorama in Atlanta is this kind of thing where 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:48.440 you go in this sort of immersive theater experience where 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:52.400 they have projections but also paintings and it's like a 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.520 three hundred and sixty degree screen. In their case, they 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.680 simulated a balloon ride because it sounds like balloons were 0:15:58.760 --> 0:15:59.880 all the rage at the time. 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.720 For sure. They also had an actual balloon race, a 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:06.880 long distance bloon race is part of the exposition. Yeah, 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.520 that reminded me when I was reading about the Cineorama. 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.040 When we did our Salt Lake City show that one time. 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:17.000 Oh yeah, before the show, during the afternoon, I was 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:20.400 walking around downtown Salt Lake and I ended up in 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:24.240 like the main Mormon temple, and one of the things 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:28.360 they have there as an exhibit is a it's basically 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.760 three hundred degrees. It's not three hundred and sixty, but 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:34.720 it is really close, like high def movie screen that 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:38.080 is right there in your face. Cool of Brigham Young 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:43.800 like receiving the message from God. It was so disorienting 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.360 that I ended up like staggering out of there in 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:48.080 the middle of it, like I couldn't take it. 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:51.400 It was just overwhelming, the message or the three hundred 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.160 degree I guess a. 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:55.440 Little bit of both, but I think the more the 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:59.760 whole three hundred degree thing. It's interesting, the most immersive 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.560 video experience I've ever seen by far. 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.440 Yeah, I'm wondering. I haven't been to the sphere in Vegas, 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:08.240 but I'm wondering if I mean, it looks super cool. 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:09.960 But I wonder if there is any sort of like, 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:11.919 oh boy, this is too much kind of feeling. 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.320 Probably, I mean, it's Las Vegas. 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:15.840 Yeah, that's true, that's all too much. 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:19.720 So one of the great things about the nineteen hundred 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.640 Exposition came from the United States. It was an exhibit 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:26.399 by American black scholars including W. E. B. Du Bois 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:31.760 and Booker T. Washington, who attended and basically said, here 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.360 is all the progress that black Americans have made since 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.080 the end of slavery. It sounds really cool. 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:40.320 Yeah. They had books, they had inventions, they had art, 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:44.679 they had just straight up photographs of like, look, we 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.720 have black nuns in the United States, we have black soldiers, 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:51.720 we have black college students. And then apparently W. E. B. 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:56.439 Dubois was sort of the early USA today because he 0:17:56.560 --> 0:18:01.000 loved making infographics, and he made info graphics showing like 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:05.840 their literacy rates were rising, they were they owned taxable property, 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:09.879 and these were from actual Georgians I think, right. And 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.560 then also like, hey, our literacy is so good among 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.320 Black Americans, like we're better than Romania and Russia at 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:16.720 this point. 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.879 Yeah, they that if I went and looked at some 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:25.120 of Dubois's infographics, and they're really interesting, Like he came 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.320 up with some really interesting ways to cram a bunch 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.160 of data and the one page visually. So it's worth 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:32.399 looking up, especially if you like colorful things. 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.960 Oh I do, and that is very USA today. Shall 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:40.440 we break now? Yes, all right, we will be right 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:41.119 back after this. 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.960 Well, now we're on the road driving in your Chuck 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.840 want to learn a thing or two from Josh Chuck. 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:52.720 It's stuff you should. 0:18:52.520 --> 0:19:10.720 Know, all right, all right, so we're back more world's fairs. 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:15.480 Latin America's get involved now. I think this is after 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:19.160 they had freed them spelled themselves from Spanish rule early 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:21.680 nineteenth century. They wanted to again show like, hey, we're 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:25.960 doing pretty well. Not only were they sending factions to 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.199 other world's fairs like in Europe and the United States, 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:32.680 but Cordoba and Buenos Aires, Argentina, had their own. Santiago, 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:36.000 Chile had their own. And this was like between the 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:37.560 eighteen seventies and eighteen eighties. 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.200 Yeah, at the time there's a lot of tension though, 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:46.000 apparently between the country's boosters who are like, look at us, 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.359 like we don't need Spanish rule. We're doing all this cool, 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:51.520 interesting stuff and we're inventing all this stuff, and then 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:53.919 others there were like, no, the point of this is 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:58.160 to like sell ourselves as sources of raw materials right 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.280 in places where you can over throw regimes to grow 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:02.439 bananas more cheaply. 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.680 Yeah. I think that that was a big point, right, like, hey, 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:08.000 we can actually make stuff here. We're not just to 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:11.399 be sort of looted for what we can provide you precisely. 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:13.760 And then the people who made money from the country 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:15.560 being looted, they were the ones who are like, no, no, no, 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:17.639 we need to just show off how easily were looted. 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:22.040 Yeah, exactly. There were you know, speaking of looting, there 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:25.560