Front page of the digital exhibition
(URL: http://www.ndl.go.jp/exposition/e/index.html)

On March 25, 2011, the digital exhibition “Expositions, where the modern technology of the times was exhibited” became available in English on the NDL website. The Japanese version had been released earlier, on June 16, 2010.

This digital exhibition gives an overview of the Japanese and international technology and industrial developments in the late 19th century. About 740 images are provided on the Internet with historical commentaries, which were taken from contemporary exposition reports, newspapers and magazines, and reprinted materials owned by the NDL.

It is made up of three parts: the first part outlines eleven international expositions and five Japanese national industrial exhibitions held in the late 19th century, showing the event characteristics and visual images of the venue; and in the following two parts, in developments industrial technology are explained with visual images of the machinery displayed at those expositions.

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