What were some of the items on exhibit at the Centennial Exhibition?
Among the mechanical devices were typewriters, electric lamps, the Corliss Steam Engine , which provided power for the Exhibition, and Alexander Graham Bell’s invention, which he publicly demonstrated for the first time, the telephone. Source: Fairmount Park, a History and Guidebook, 1974, p.29, Esther M. Klein, 917.
Among the mechanical devices were typewriters, electric lamps, the Corliss Steam Engine , which provided power for the Exhibition, and Alexander Graham Bell’s invention, which he publicly demonstrated for the first time, the telephone. Source: Fairmount Park, a History and Guidebook, 1974, p.29, Esther M.
