World's fair
How Thomas Edison Illuminated Modern America
The 1893 Columbian Exposition introduced the United States as an industrial power on the world’s stage. Americans flocked to Chicago to ride the world’s first Ferris Wheel, to hear Frederick Jackson Turner lecture on his frontier thesis and, perhaps most of all, to see electric light for the first time. As the exposition opened on May […]
New World’s Fair
Steve talks with architect William McDonough about the Expo 2000 world’s fair scheduled for Hanover, Germany. McDonough has helped draw up design and construction guidelines for the fair, which, unlike many world’s-fairs past, will feature energy-efficient and sustainable technologies.