21. • Capitalism needed to expand continuously to allow
increased consumption to stimulate production.
• through international expositions, nations could
display their art and technology to the world.
• The first was the great exhibition in London in 1851.
• Many cities followed suit : Paris in 1855 and 1867,
Vienna in 1873, and again in Paris 1878,1889 and 1900.
because a confident display might invoke the
confidence of the customer, expenditure was lavish and
architect and engineer responded vigour and assurance
which resulted in some of the finest buildings of the
century.