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    The Economist et la controverse sur les brevets, 1850-1875 by Alain Le Pichon

    Published 2006-01-01
    “…The opening of Great Exhibition of 1851 coincided with the start of a long debate on the law of patents. …”
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    Les laboratoires de l’espace-temps mondialisé : le science-fictionnel et les expositions universelles de 1851 à 1939 by Roger Luckhurst

    Published 2016-06-01
    “…Cet article se penche sur le mouvement des expositions universelles, de la Great Exhibition de Londres en 1851 à La Foire Internationale de New York en 1939. …”
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    Victorian Arts and the Challenge of Modernity: Analogy, the Grid, and Chemical Transformations by Francesca Orestano

    Published 2019-06-01
    “…The grid provides the structure to the Crystal Palace housing the Great Exhibition in 1851, and the grid is the structure presiding over modern chemistry, owing to the tabular arrangement of chemical elements envisaged by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev and first published in 1869. …”
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    Toward Endless Life: Population, Machinery, and Monumental Time by Thomas Allen

    Published 2016-01-01
    “…But this turn to a deeper and vaster sense of historical time has, itself, a history, one that illuminates our current struggle to define the scale within which we understand human experience. At the great exhibitions of the late nineteenth century, from the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia to the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, visitors encountered representations of vast historical time in which humanity played a relatively insignificant role. …”
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