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THE International Inventions Exhibition is intended o to illustrate the progress of invention during the period that has elapsed since the last Great International Exhibition in this country in the year 1862. Accordingly we find under Group XIII. electricity ranged under twelve classes, entitled respectively, generators, conductors, testing and measuring apparatus, telegraphic and telephonic apparatus, electric lighting apparatus, electrometallurgy and electro-chemistry, distribution and utilisation of power, electric signalling, lightning-conductors, electro medical apparatus, electrolytic methods for extracting and purifying metals, electrothermic apparatus. Under such a classification there is no doubt that the Exhibition might have been made thoroughly representative of the wonderful progress that has taken place in this branch of science, both in its theory and practice, during the last twenty-three years. The reason that it is not so is twofold: electricity has had of late years many exhibitions dedicated to itself—those of Paris, Vienna, and Sydenham; and it was quite impossible in such an exhibition as the Inventions, where so much has had to be compressed into so little space, to indicate the progress of invention in each class of each group. If, however, electricity is not represented in this way, it is in another way, and that is through the medium of one of its special applications—that of the electric light. Electricity thus forms the light and life of the whole Exhibition after sunset, and in this connection we would view it on the present occasion.
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Electricity at the Inventions Exhibition . Nature 32, 106–107 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032106a0
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