In what ways does the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 change America? What lasting inventions and ideas did it introduce into American culture? What important figures were critically influenced by the Fair?
The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 changed America in many many immense ways. Maybe the most prominent is that is directly changed America's and the world's perception of America and what we could accomplish. Not only was it the first of its kind in America, but the Chicago World's Fair launched America into its superpower legacy and changed the way the entirety of the world viewed the united states of America for centuries to come. The Chicago World's Fair provided a showcase for American power and a reflection of the nation's prevailing values. The Fair did not only influence the generation of its time but visibly extended beyond this generation, advancing these ideas into the twenty first century visibly shaping the very landscape of modern America. Leaving behind a legacy that is extremely wide-ranging, from movements in popular and high culture to changes in the nation's power structure and the lasting influence of commerce and technology. The World's Colombian Exposition established a Neo-Classical revival in Chicago and across America, thus changing American ideals and creating a entirely new way to view America. This global phenomenon of a fair changed culture, fashion, food, transportation and the ways in which tourists viewed architecture, and how these building defied gravity to create a whole new world to those who visited the fair.
Inventions also defied gravity like that of the Ferris wheel and building made out of soap and other materials. The exhibition halls housed new inventions and appliances for the home and farm, many of them powered by electricity changing the way home and farm worked. Visitors gawked at electric incubators for chicken eggs, electric chairs for executions, an electric sidewalk, an early fax machine that sent pictures over telegraph lines, electric irons, sewing machines and laundry machines, and Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, the first moving pictures. These were invented and introduced to draw in more tourism and more money and profits to the fair. Not only did industrial inventions spark interest, food products such as aunt Jamima and Hienz, which forever changed the condiment industry and food flavors for eternity. Other foods including gums, hamburger, cream of wheat, quaker oats, and shredded wheat all contributed to the changing generation of food production and consumption.
Many figures involved with the fair affected it and were critically influenced by it. Architects including, Frank Lloyd Wright, Burham and Root, and all of the other architects in charge of the architecture and amazingly significant displays of technology at the Chicago World's Fair. Those influenced directly by the fair were acts such of Buffalo Bill Cody, Thomas Edison, Susan B. Anthony, all of these people were influenced by the fair in ways that made their ideals available to the public. This Fair allowed them to become well known and popular. Not only were the Fair's acts influenced but also citizens and tourists that visited the fair. These people, first hand, saw the attractions, bought the goods, and saw, right before their eyes, America change. It was shocking, real, and irreversible. Right at their fingertips; these tourists could see new and unique inventions and gained incredible want for new products, gaining the fair proceeds and stimulating the American economy.
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