Outside In
Like Thomas Anderson (Neo) in the movie The Matrix, a visit to the 2010 Expo will not only expose you to a brave new world of technology, it may change your life forever.
The very idea of film was first presented to the public at the 1889 Paris Expo by George Eastman.
The saxophone, invented by Belgian-born instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1841, became the most famous exhibit at the Paris World Expo in 1855. Sax applied for, and received, a 15-year patent for his invention earlier in 1846.
Guernica is a mural-size canvas that Pablo Picasso created for the Paris World Expo in 1937.
The ice-cream cone was popularized at the Saint Louis World's Fair in 1904 by a Syrian pastry-maker called Ernst Hawk.
Fashion shows were introduced at the Paris Expo in 1855 by royal tailor Charles Frederick Worth. Worth's rise as a designer coincided with the establishment of the Second Empire in France, a time when Napoleon III was emperor.
TV broadcasting technology appeared at the New York Expo in 1939.
The phonograph (gramophone) was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the late 1870s until the late 1980s. This was yet another invention was brought to the world by Thomas Edison.
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Daimler's wire-wheel car was the first automobile shown at a World Fair, in this case the 1889 Paris Expo.
