Talk:International Exhibition of Science, Art & Industry

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EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL ELECTRICAL EXHIBITION. - The executive council decided to finally close the list of applications for space on Jan. 15, when allotment was proceeded with. The French, Italian, and Austrian exhibits are expected to be specially fine, while India, China, and Japan will all be well represented in the department devoted to general industries. The railway machinery and appliances section promises well, several of the leading railway companies having agreed to exhibit; while among electrical exhibitors are Sir William Thomson, W. H. Preece, Edison, the general post-office, Edison-Swan, Laing, Wharton & Down, Anglo-American Brush, Paterson & Cooper, United Electrical Engineering, King, Brown & Co., Mavor & Coulson, Sir William Vavasour (Limited), Elmore Copper Depositing Company, Thomson-Houston Welding Company, Newell Engine Company, Robey & Co., Electric Traction Company, Ernest Scott & Co., Ronald Scott, Woodhouse & Rawson, Butler, Jobson & Co., W. T. Glover & Co., National Telephone Company, Consolidated Telephone Construction Company, Col. Gouraud, Gent & Co., Exchange Telegraph Company, Eastern Telegraph Company. The Decauville Company propose to show a narrow-gauge railway in operation, but worked by electricity in lieu of steam. The executive council have arranged with Immisch & Co. for a ten-minutes' service of electric launches on the Union Canal between Fountainbridge and the exhibition, which -will afford the public a novel and interesting mode of conveyance, and will probably constitute the first example of electric navigation for general traffic. In addition to the British electrical contingent, about one hundred and fifty electrical exhibits are expected from France, where the government have officially recognized the exhibition, and considerable numbers from other foreign countries. The financial prospects of the exhibition are regarded by the finance committee as eminently satisfactory, as, owing to the much larger sums obtained for refreshment and other concessions above those received at the former Edinburgh Exhibition of 1886, it is considered that the whole cost of the buildings, grounds, and preparations will be defrayed without drawing on the admission receipts at all, whereas in 1886 no less than $110,000 had to be made up out of admission receipts before any thing was available wherewith to meet working expenses.

Electrical News, Science, Vol. 15, No. 365 (Jan. 31, 1890), p. 78, American Association for the Advancement of Science Stable URL: www.jstor.org/stable/1762338 --NearEMPTiness (talk) 18:58, 13 January 2022 (UTC)